A GIS Based Mapping of Ambient Air Quality of Major Sites of Lahore

Saif-ur-Rehman Kashif; Fatima Tariq; Fariha Arooj

doi:10.52763/PJSIR.PHYS.SCI.63.3.2020.168.175

Saif-ur-Rehman Kashif Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan
Fatima Tariq Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan
Fariha Arooj Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52763/PJSIR.PHYS.SCI.63.3.2020.168.175

Keywords: ambient air quality mapping, IDW (inverse distance weighted), VOCs, air pollution

Abstract

Ambient air pollution is emerging environmental problem in major cities of Pakistan. Service sector growth is 8% and there is a rapid development of infrastructure in cities especially in transport sector which causes ambient air pollution issues in mega cities. To estimate the level of pollution in the city of Lahore, ambient air quality mapping procedure was used with the help of Haz Scanner HIM-6000 equipped with different sensors and ArcGIS 10.3 software was used for mapping of these pollutants. This study continued for two months from September to October, 2017 for different pollutants like PM2.5, VOCs, Ozone, NOx, CO2, CO, SO2 and H2S. From the study, it was concluded that ambient air in Lahore has lot of pollutants especially PM2.5, NO, NO2, CO, SO2 where as conc. of VOCs, H2S and Ozone was in limits in relation to NEQs for these pollutants.