spatial analysis of co and pm10 pollutants in tehran city

nowadays, air pollution in cities with regard to its harmful outcomes has been turned into one of the serious challenges in urban management. pollutants as carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and the aerosols that are known to be among the most important factors related to heart, vascular, and lung disease, have underlined public welfare and health, and the organizations concerned with community health undertake remarkable expenses for disease coming out of these pollutants per year. awareness of the air situation and its quality over periods and the process of air pollutants’ changes in locations, and especially detection of high risk places can play an important and efficient role in urban health management and land use policy-making. in this paper, for the prediction of the possibility of occurring a pollutant in different locations, based on location information, one modern method of analysis entitled indicator kriging method is introduced. since, nowadays, co and pm 10 are the two major pollutants in tehran city, using the mentioned method, the probability of occurrence of each of them in dey 1390 along with their accuracy is being measured and then a map is provided for the possible occurrence of these pollutants over the whole city of tehran.