Speed-up of the disaggregation of emission inventories and increased resolution of disaggregated maps using landuse data

Jong Ho Kim; Byoung Kyu Kwak; Chee Burm Shin; Hyeon-Soo Park; Kyunghee Choi; Sang Mok Lee; Jongheop Yi

Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol.26, No.6, 1620-1629, November, 2009

DOI10.1007/s11814-009-0280-x Export Citation

Speed-up of the disaggregation of emission inventories and increased resolution of disaggregated maps using landuse data

Jong Ho Kim, Byoung Kyu Kwak, Chee Burm Shin¹, Hyeon-Soo Park², Kyunghee Choi³, Sang Mok Lee³, and Jongheop Yi^†

School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, San 56-1, Sillim-9-dong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 151-742, Korea
¹Department of Chemical Engineering, Ajou University, Wonchen-dong, Yeongtong-gu,Suwon, Gyeonggi-do 433-749, Korea
²TO21, Lotte Tower 402-Ho, Sindaebang 2-dong, Dongjak-gu, Seoul 156-711, Korea
³National Institute of Environmental Research, Environment Research Complex, Gyeongseo-dong, Seo-gu, Incheon 404-170, Korea

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This study describes the full disaggregation process of emission inventory maps in support of environmental modeling studies in a geographical information system. Using a heuristic approach, appropriate algorithms were found to accelerate the computational disaggregation speed. The algorithms were based on scan-conversion algorithms employed in the field of computer graphics. Various algorithms were analyzed in terms of supporting emission inventories with different shapes, such as points, polylines and polygons. The algorithms were implemented by using Visual Basic, thereby enabling the efficiencies of the algorithms to be analyzed and compared with each other. For the disaggregation of polygon types, with the aim of increasing the resolution of an inventory map, we suggest the advanced polygon-disaggregation method with land use data. An air dispersion simulation was performed in order to compare the accuracy of the emission input data generated by existing disaggregation methods and the advanced method proposed in the present study.

Keywords:Emissions;Disaggregation;Scan-conversion;Dispersion;GIS;Landuse

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