LOCATE: Context-Aware GeoAI Decision Support for Population-Oriented Air-Quality Sensor Placement in Data-Constrained Cities
The paper introduces LOCATE, a data-light GeoAI framework that optimizes pre-deployment air-quality sensor placement in data-constrained cities by prioritizing population proximity and urban context, demonstrating that a context-augmented population-weighted p-median heuristic outperforms other methods across multiple African cities.