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Comprehensive monitoring of urban air pollution is paramount to better understand and work towards ameliorating hazardous air quality level in urban centres of India. This study aims at developing a multispectral empirical model useful in estimating the concentration of particulate matter of 2.5 micrometres (μm) or less in diameter (PM_2.5) on a city-wide scale using Landsat 8 satellite’s data over the metropolis of Delhi, India. The data pertaining to PM_2.5 mass concentration as well as meteorological parameters like relative humidity and temperature were taken from the field observation stations of the Central Pollution Control Board in New Delhi conform to the date of data collection from Landsat 8 satellite. The ambient reflectance in the visible spectrum bands was measured and compared with the in-situ concentration of PM_2.5 and the meteorological evidence acquired from the Central Pollution Control Board …