GeoENV II -- Geostatistics for Environmental Applications : Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications held in Valencia, Spain, November 18-20, 1998

The Second European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Ap­ plications took place in Valencia, November 18-20, 1998. Two years have past from the first meeting in Lisbon and the geostatistical community has kept active in the environmental field. In these days of congress inflation, we feel that continuity can only be achieved by ensuring quality in the papers. For this reason, all papers in the book have been reviewed by, at least, two referees, and care has been taken to ensure that the reviewer comments have been incorporated in the final version of the manuscript. We are thankful to the members of the scientific committee for their timely review of the scripts. All in all, there are three keynote papers from experts in soil science, climatology and ecology and 43 contributed papers providing a good indication of the status of geostatistics as applied in the environ­ mental field all over the world. We feel now confident that the geoENV conference series, seeded around a coffee table almost six years ago, will march firmly into the next century. Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Front Matter....Pages N2-N2 A Review of Linear Geostatistics for Fisheries Survey Design and Stock Assessment....Pages 1-12 Representation of Conditional Random Distributions as a Problem of “Spatial” Interpolation....Pages 13-23 Sampling, Estimating and Understanding soil Pollution....Pages 25-37 Front Matter....Pages 39-39 Spatial Analysis of Particulate Matter in an Urban Environment....Pages 41-52 Space-Time Geostatistical Modelling: a Case Study of Sea-Salt Measured on Lichens....Pages 53-64 Spatial Prediction of Sulfur Dioxide in the Eastern United States....Pages 65-76 Spatial Interpolation of Ozone Exposure in Norway from Space-Time Data....Pages 77-88 Stochastic Modeling of Spatiotemporal Distributions: Application to Sulphate Deposition Trends Over Europe....Pages 89-100 Sampling Multiphase Noise Exposure Time Series....Pages 101-112 Evaluation of Environmental Costs of SO 2 Emissions Using Stochastic Images....Pages 113-124 The Larsen Model from a De Wijsian Perspective....Pages 125-135 Front Matter....Pages 137-137 Geostatistical Segmentation of Rainfall Data....Pages 139-150 Downscaling of Precipitation Combining Kriging and Empirical Orthogonal Function Analysis....Pages 151-162 Kriging with Categorical External Drift: Use of Thematic Maps in Spatial Prediction and Application to Local Climate Interpolation for Agriculture....Pages 163-174 Modelling of Non-Stationary Spatial Structure Using Parametric Radial Basis Deformations....Pages 175-186 A Maximum Likelihood Estimator for Semi-Variogram Parameters in Kriging....Pages 187-198 Front Matter....Pages 199-199 A Geostatistical Analysis Of The Spatial Distribution and Abundance of Cod, Haddock and Whiting in North Scotland....Pages 201-212 Geostatistical Data Versus Point Process Data: Analysis of Second-Order Characteristics....Pages 213-224 Mapping the Spatial Distribution of Waders on South Tagus Riverside....Pages 225-235 Geostatistics for Ecology: An Application of the Variogram to Radio-Telemetry Data....Pages 237-244 Front Matter....Pages 245-245 Interpolation of Groundwater Quality Parameters Using Geological and Land Use Classification....Pages 247-258 A Coupled Markov Chain Model for Quantification of Uncertainty in Transport in Heterogeneous Formations....Pages 259-270 Prediction of Steady State Flow in Randomly Heterogeneous Formations by Conditional Nonlocal Finite Elements....Pages 271-282 Inverse Modeling of Groundwater Flow in a 3D Fractured Media....Pages 283-294 Inverse Geostatistical Modeling of Pumping and Tracer Tests Within a Shear-Zone in Granite....Pages 295-306 Comparison of Stochastic Calibration Methods for Modflow Using the Real-World Case ‘Wierden’....Pages 307-318 Geostatistical Analyses of the Gorleben Channel....Pages 319-330 Simulation of Non-Ergodic Transport in 2-D Heterogeneous Anisotropic Media....Pages 331-342 Geostatistical Generation of Three-Dimensional Aquifer Realizations Using the Conditional Sis Approach with Direction Trends Imposed on Variogram Models....Pages 343-354 Front Matter....Pages 355-355 Performance Comparison of Cumulative and Class Indicator Approaches for Pollution Risk Assessment....Pages 357-368 A Geostatistical Analysis of Cropped and Uncropped Soil from the Jimperding Brook Catchment of Western Australia....Pages 369-379 Geostatistical Estimation Techniques Applied to Radionuclide Deposition: an Accident Response Decision Aid....Pages 381-392 Optimising The Size of Sampling Units in an Area Frame....Pages 393-404 Accounting for Scale-Dependent Correlation in the Spatial Prediction of Soil Properties....Pages 405-416 Geostatistical Survey and Amelioration of an Inland Salt Affected Area in the Lake of Texcoco, Mexico....Pages 417-428 Mapping Heavy Metals in Soil by (Non-)Linear Kriging: an Empirical Validation....Pages 429-440 Geostatistic study of salt distribution in “laguna de Salinas”. Alicante. Spain....Pages 441-452 Conditional Stochastic Cosimulations of the Chernobyl Fallout....Pages 453-464 Sampling To Monitor Soil In England And Wales....Pages 465-476 Front Matter....Pages 477-477 Assessing the Variability of the Variogram Estimator....Pages 479-490 Front Matter....Pages 477-477 Criteria for Multivariate Spatial Sampling Design Based on Covariance Matrix Perturbation....Pages 491-502 Front Matter....Pages 503-503 Coastal Evolution by Dual Kriging....Pages 505-514 Hydric Erosion in Talus by Terrestrial Photogrammetry....Pages 515-526 Smoothing Cancer Ratios in Tirol: A Bayesian Model in Epidemiology....Pages 527-536 The Effect of Scale-Related Issues on the Geostatistical Analysis of Ordnance Survey (R) Digital Elevation Data at the National Scale....Pages 537-548 Image Filtering by Kriging Analysis....Pages 549-560 Back Matter....Pages 561-562

This book contains selected contributions from the geoENV98 - the Second European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Sciences, held in Valencia, Spain in November 1998.
This second book of the geoENV series illustrates the developments on geostatistics as applied to the environmental sciences which have occurred during the past two years. It also presents practical applications which will be of interest to both researchers and practitioners.
The book starts with three keynote papers on ecology, climatology and soil science, followed by forty-three contributions. The contents of the book are eminently practical. The objective of the editors was to compile a set of papers in which the reader could perceive how geostatistics is applied within the environmental sciences. A few selected theoretical contributions are also included. The papers are organized in the following seven main areas Air pollution Climatology Ecology Hydrogeology Soil Science Theory Other applications presenting applications varying from particle matter analysis, noise exposure sampling, space-time modeling of ozone levels, downscaling of precipitation, kriging with categorical external drift, analysis of fish abundance, combining variograms and radio-telemetry in ecology, kriging radionuclide deposition, mapping of soil contamination, network design for soil monitoring, inverse modeling in hydrogeology, groundwater transport modeling, coastal evolution mapping to spatial modeling of cancer ratios.
Audience: This publication will be of great interest and practical value to geostatisticians working both in academia and in industry.