US Patent 10438125 Very short-term air pollution forecasting

A mechanism is provided for forecasting air pollution. One or more air-pollution monitoring stations correlated to a forecasting point from a plurality of air-pollution monitoring stations are identified. For the one or more air-pollution monitoring stations that correlate to the forecasting point, one or more patterns of the forecasting point, historical patterns of the forecasting point relating to the one or more patterns of the forecasting point, and one or more patterns of the air-pollution monitoring stations that relate to the one or more patterns of the forecasting point are identified. Based on the one or more patterns of the forecasting point, the historical patterns of the forecasting point relating to the one or more patterns of the forecasting point, and the one or more patterns of the air-pollution monitoring stations that relate to the one or more patterns of the forecasting point, a pollution forecast is provided.