State-of-the-Art in Environmental Odor Monitoring: A Comprehensive Review of Commercially Available Technologies
This review provides a critical, balanced synthesis of current odor assessment and prediction methodologies, alongside their inherent uncertainties, tailored for engineers, environmental scientists, and regulatory bodies. Crucially, choosing and designing sampling strategies must be strictly based on expected concentrations and required exposure times. For field characterization, real-time monitoring tools offer a strong way to instantly measure volatile and very volatile organic compounds. These devices give detailed concentration data through built-in logging systems. Deploying these analytical techniques ultimately allows for continuous tracking of changes over time. This offers the time resolution needed to identify and analyze brief exposure peaks and their main causes.
Authors
- Riccardo Gori (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8310-5240)
- Domenico Cipriano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2693-8633)
- Marina Cerasa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7590-5694)
- Ettore Guerriero (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4199-418X)
- Fabio Cioni
- Antonio Baldassarre (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6124-3570)
- Chiara Vita (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9190-6550)
- Nicola Mucci (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0579-1035)
- Niccolò Fanfani
- Stefano Dugheri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3078-7188)
- Ilaria Rapi
- Ivana Stanimirova
- Cappelli Giovanni
- Santillo Michele (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0876-4521)
Institutions
- Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione Ambientale del Piemonte (IT)
- Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi (IT)
- Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico (Italy) (IT)
- Polo Universitario Città di Prato (IT)
- Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research (IT)
- Link Campus University (IT)
- University of Florence (IT)
- University of Silesia in Katowice (PL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Atmosphere
- Published
- 2026-08-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos17090823
- Primary Topic
- Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00