The true state of air pollution is not known in Port Novo. The inhabitants do not have any information on their immediate environment. In this paper, the main objective is to know the pollution state of Port Novo-Benin. A fifteen years dataset was obtained from the Multi-angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer (MISR). Computational and statistical analysis was adopted. The percentage of increase of aerosols loading was high in 2000, 2001, 2008, 2009 and 2011 which was 7.1%, 6.8%, 19.4%, 17.1% and 8.7%. Cumulatively increase of aerosol loading within 15 years was 1.7%. These results show that Port Novo is has excess deposition of air pollution into the atmosphere.

Topics
Air pollution, Optical instruments, Aerosols
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