Application of Satellite Remote Sensing Data in Monitoring Iran's Agricultural and Horticultural Environmental Pollutions
(A Case Study of Nitrogen Dioxide)
Subject Areas :
Agriculture and Environment
Mohammad Shojaaddini
1
(
Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Technical and Vocational University (TVU), Tehran, Iran. *(Corresponding Author)
)
Ashkan Moosavian
2
(
Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Technical and Vocational University (TVU), Tehran, Iran.
)
Received: 2021-05-30
Accepted : 2021-07-31
Published : 2021-11-22
Keywords:
Pollutant,
ozone,
Agriculture,
satellite,
Nitrogen dioxide,
Abstract :
Background and objective: Nitrogen dioxide pollutant has adverse effects on agricultural production, but the levels of this pollutant have not yet been studied for agricultural production areas in Iran. The aim of this research was investigating the atmospheric levels of nitrogen dioxide in the main agricultural and horticultural environments of Iran, during the years 2018-2020. The main agricultural provinces were determined with regards to quantitative comparison of reference statistics of areas under cultivation for the agricultural and horticultural lands of Iran as well as the annual agricultural yield of different provinces of this country.
Material and Methodology: The average levels of nitrogen dioxide pollutant in the geographical center of five agricultural ecosystems including Khuzestan, Fars, Khorasan Razavi, West Azerbaijan and Mazandaran provinces were calculated based on raw data received in May 2021 from the tropospheric remote sensing satellite (TROPOMI). Data were recorded by the Ozone Assessment Tool (OMI) at intervals of two weeks from the starting plant growing season (spring and summer).
Findings: The study of pollutant fluctuations in the first six months of the three years studied showed that the maximum amount of nitrogen dioxide in 2018 with a value of 80 micromoles per square meter belonged to agricultural lands in Fars province. In mid-June 2020, the amount of pollutants emitted from agricultural lands of Mazandaran province increased by more than 400% compared to the same time in 2019 and reached the level of 160 micromoles per square meter.
Discussion and Conclusion: Data analysis showed that the mean pollutants of the provinces were not significantly different between the three years but were different between the provinces. Analysis of variance showed that the maximum amount of NO2 pollutants in the cultivation months of the three years was belonged to the agro-horticultural ecosystems of Fars, Khuzestan and Mazandaran provinces with the values of 71, 80 and 160µmol/m2, respectively.
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