Review of Environmental Multimedia Models

Environmental pollution problems are crucial concerns that have attracted a great deal of public attention. More actions are urgently required on formulating remediation strategies for contaminated sites and setting effective standards and regulations for reducing the toxic pollutants in the environment. To achieve these needs, comprehensive understanding of and characterizing the natural behavior of chemical in the environment are essential tasks for environmental risk assessment and management. Compared with direct multimedia monitoring, multimedia-modeling systems are more viable and practicable. In this article, most widely recognized multimedia models were categorized and reviewed. The concepts that form the foundation of each multimedia model were described, and the advantages and the limitations of multimedia model were discussed. The aim of this article was to consider challenges and opportunities in improving present multimedia modeling system and also to pave the way for future research in this field