Haze monitoring based on air pollution index (API) and geographic information system (GIS)

Haze has becoming a yearly occurrence in Malaysia. There exist three dimensionsto the problems associated with air pollution: public ignorance on quality of air, impact of air pollution towards health, and difficulty in obtaining information related to air pollution. This research aims to analyse and visually identify areas and associated level of air pollutant. This study applies the air pollutant index (API) data retrieved from Malaysia Department of Environment (DOE) and Geographic Information System (GIS) via Inverse Distance Weighted (IDW) interpolation methodin ArcGIS 10.1 software to enable haze monitoring visualisation. In this research, study area is narrowed to five major cities in Selangor, Malaysia.