Advances in Environmental Research

Volume 3, Number 1, 2014, pages 87-106

DOI: 10.12989/aer.2014.3.1.087

Software approach towards understanding meteorological data for environmental monitoring and assessment of peninsular Malaysia

Sayed Abulhasan Quadri, Othman Sidek, Hadi Jafar, Nur Amira binti Amran, Ummi Nurulhaiza bt Zabah and Azizul bin Abdullah

Abstract

The concern for the global environment ensues researchers from various disciplines to work in collaboration to tackle with the issues of sustainability and environmental conservation for well-being of the people. In this study, we have selected and focused on few basic environment-effecting factors such as temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide and oxygen concentration level and referred them as meteorological data. In this paper, we present the development of our own customized hardware setup, environmental monitoring device (EMD) to obtain the data. Utilizing the relationship among these basic parameters, represented in the form of formulas and equations, we tried to encode them using Matlab programming. Data visualization is achieved by plotting the graphs of basic parameters obtained from EMD as well for the derivatives using Matlab programs.

Key Words

meteorological data; temperature; humidity; carbon dioxide; oxygen; software; Matlab; environmental monitoring device

Address

Sayed Abulhasan Quadri, Othman Sidek, Hadi Jafar, Nur Amira binti Amran, Ummi Nurulhaiza bt Zabah and Azizul bin Abdullah: Collaborative Microelectronic Design Excellence Centre (CEDEC), Universiti Sains Malaysia, Engineering Campus, Nibong Tebal, Malaysia, 14300.