geoENV VI – Geostatistics for Environmental Applications: Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications (Quantitative Geology and Geostatistics Book 15)

This volume contains ca. 40 selected full-text contributions from the Sixth European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications, geoENV VI, held in Rhodes, Greece, October 25-26, 2006. The objective of the editors was to compile a set of papers from which the reader could perceive how geostatistics is applied within the environmental sciences. A few selected theoretical contributions are also included. __Audience:__ After six editions the geoENV Congress Series has established itself as a 'must' to all scientists working in the field of geostatistics for environmental applications. Each geoENV congress covers the developments which have occurred during the preceding two years, but always with a highly applied focus. It is precisely this focus on the applications to environmental sciences which makes the geoENV volumes unique and of great interest and practical value to geostatisticians working both in academia and in industry. Front Matter....Pages I-XX Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Geostatistical Analysis of Health Data: State-of-the-Art and Perspectives....Pages 3-22 Early Detection and Assessment of Epidemics by Particle Filtering....Pages 23-35 Improvement of Forecast Noise Levels in Confined Spaces by Means of Geostatistical Methods....Pages 37-44 Geostatistical Modeling of Environmental Sound Propagation....Pages 45-57 Geostatistical Estimation of Electromagnetic Exposure....Pages 59-70 How Spatial Analysis Can Help in Predicting the Level of Radioactive Contamination of Cereals....Pages 71-82 Stochastic Modelling Applied to Air Quality Space-Time Characterization....Pages 83-93 Automatic Mapping Algorithm of Nitrogen Dioxide Levels from Monitoring Air Pollution Data Using Classical Geostatistical Approach: Application to the French Lille City....Pages 95-101 King Prawn Catch by Grade Category from an Economic and a Stock Management Perspective....Pages 103-113 Front Matter....Pages 115-115 Machine Learning Methods for Inverse Modeling....Pages 117-125 Statistical Moments of Reaction Rates in Subsurface Reactive Solute Transport....Pages 127-139 Including Conceptual Model Information when Kriging Hydraulic Heads....Pages 141-151 Effect of Sorption Processes on Pump-and-Treat Remediation Practices Under Heterogeneous Conditions....Pages 153-164 A Stochastic Approach to Estimate Block Dispersivities that Includes the Effect of Mass Transfer Between Grid Blocks....Pages 165-173 Fracture Analysis and Flow Simulations in the Roselend Fractured Granite....Pages 175-190 Assessment of Groundwater Salinisation Risk Using Multivariate Geostatistics....Pages 191-202 A MultiGaussian Kriging Application to the Environmental Impact Assessment of a New Industrial Site in Alcoy (Spain)....Pages 203-210 Hydrogeological Modeling of Radionuclide Transport in Heterogeneous Low-Permeability Media: A Comparison Between Boom Clay and Ieper Clay....Pages 211-219 Topological Kriging of Runoff....Pages 221-231 Front Matter....Pages 233-233 Quantifying the Impact of the North Atlantic Oscillation on Western Iberia....Pages 235-246 Front Matter....Pages 233-233 Monthly Average Temperature Modelling....Pages 247-262 Improving the Areal Estimation of Rainfall in Galicia (NW Spain) Using Digital Elevation Information....Pages 263-273 Identification of Inhomogeneities in Precipitation Time Series Using Stochastic Simulation....Pages 275-282 Bayesian Classification of a Meteorological Risk Index for Forest Fires: DSR....Pages 283-294 Front Matter....Pages 295-295 Super Resolution Mapping with Multiple Point Geostatistics....Pages 297-305 Super-Resolution Mapping Using the Two-Point Histogram and Multi-Source Imagery....Pages 307-321 Dating Fire Events on End of Season Maps of Burnt Scars....Pages 323-333 Influence of Climate Variability on Wheat Production in Portugal....Pages 335-345 Front Matter....Pages 347-347 Joint Simulation of Mine Spoil Uncertainty for Rehabilitation Decision Making....Pages 349-359 Temporal Geostatistical Analyses of N 2 O Fluxes from Differently Treated Soils....Pages 361-371 Evaluation of an Automatic Procedure Basedon Geostatistical Methods for the Characterization of Contaminated Sediments....Pages 373-383 Front Matter....Pages 385-396 Nonlinear Spatial Prediction with Non-Gaussian Data: A Maximum Entropy Viewpoint....Pages 397-407 Data Fusion in a Spatial Multivariate Framework: Trading off Hypotheses Against Information....Pages 409-420 The Challenge of Real-Time Automatic Mapping for Environmental Monitoring Network Management....Pages 421-441 Geostatistical Applications of Spartan Spatial Random Fields....Pages 443-443 A New Parallelization Approach for Sequential Simulation....Pages 445-455 Front Matter....Pages 457-466 Clustering in Environmental Monitoring Networks: Dimensional Resolutions and Pattern Detection....Pages 467-475 ....Pages 477-487 This volume contains 40 selected full-text contributions from the Sixth European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications, geoENV IV, held in Rhodes, Greece, October 25-26, 2006. The objective of the editors was to compile a set of papers from which the reader could perceive how geostatistics is applied within the environmental sciences. A few selected theoretical contributions are also included. Edited By Amílcar Soares, Maria João Pereira And Roussos Dimitrakopoulos. Includes Bibliographical References.