geoENV III — Geostatistics for Environmental Applications: Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications held in Avignon, France, November 22–24, 2000

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
On the Contribution of Hydrogeology to Advances in Geostatistics....Pages 1-16
Advances in Modeling and Inference for Environmental Processes with Nonstationary Spatial Covariance....Pages 17-32
Ordinary and Indicator Kriging of Monthly Mean Nitrogen Dioxide Concentrations in the United Kingdom....Pages 33-44
Total Air Pollution And Space-Time Modelling....Pages 45-56
Geostatistical Interpolation of Rainfall in Mountainous Areas....Pages 57-66
Incorporating Information from a Digital Elevation Model for Improving the Areal Estimation of Rainfall....Pages 67-78
Robust Predictions of Rainfall in Navarre, Spain....Pages 79-90
Powering an Egyptian Air Quality Information System with the Bayesian Maximum Entropy Space/Time Analysis Toolbox: Results From the Cairo Baseline Year Study....Pages 91-100
Space-Time Modelling Of Sand Beach Data: A Geostatistical Approach....Pages 101-111
Identification of Regional Variability Component by Geostatistical Analysis of Stream Sediments....Pages 113-123
Delineation of Hazardous Areas and Additional Sampling Strategy in Presence of a Location-Specific Threshold....Pages 125-136
Local Interpolation of Some Chemical Parameters After the Removal of the Aznalcóllar Mine Spill Sludge (South-West Spain)....Pages 137-147
Geostatistical Evaluation of a Monitoring Strategy for Water Quality Assessment....Pages 149-156
Application of Data Assimilation to Three-Dimensional Hydrodynamics: the Case of the Odra Lagoon....Pages 157-168
Geostatistical Characterization of a Pine Tree Productivity Index....Pages 169-179
Impact of Local Pollution on Fish Abundance Using Geostatistical Simulations....Pages 181-191
An Application of Geostatistical and GIS Techniques to Indoor Radon Risk Mapping....Pages 193-203
Stochastic Flow and Transport Simulations of a Three-Dimensional Tracer Test in Moderately Fractured Plutonic Rock....Pages 205-216
A Probabilistic and Conditional Approach for Delineating the Extent of a Contamination Plume within an Aquifer....Pages 217-226
Geostatistical Modeling of Tracer Tests in a Single Fracture. Calibration of Transport Parameters....Pages 227-237
Radial Flow in a Bounded Randomly Heterogeneous Aquifer with Recharge....Pages 239-250
Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analyses for Contaminant Transport Models Based on Conditional Indicator Simulations....Pages 251-261
Analysis of Radionuclide Migration in Rock Fractures with Heterogeneous Matrix Diffusion....Pages 263-274
Probability Field Algorithm for Multivariate Conditional Simulation....Pages 275-285
Analysing Positive-Valued Spatial Data: the Transformed Gaussian Model....Pages 287-298
Kriging for Cut-Offs and Other Difficult Problems....Pages 299-310
Detecting Regions of Abrupt Change: Wombling Procedure and Statistical Significance....Pages 311-322
Average Length of Objects Defined from Binary Realizations: Effects of Discretization and Covariance Parameters....Pages 323-332
A Positive Definite Estimator of the Non Stationary Covariance of Random Fields....Pages 333-344
Variogram-Derived Measures of Textural Image Classification....Pages 345-355
Which Experimental Variogram for the Structural Inference: A Methodological Study....Pages 357-368
Parameter Uncertainty in Spatial Prediction: Checking its Importance by Cross-Validating the Wolfcamp and Rongelap Data Sets....Pages 369-380
Direct Sequential Co-Simulation: A New Stochastic Modelling for Environmental Applications....Pages 381-391
Change of Support for Environmental Indicators....Pages 393-404
Bayesian Conditioning of a Random Field to Point Measurements....Pages 405-416
Factorial Kriging Applied to the Study of Industrial Contaminated Soils....Pages 417-428
Managing Heterogeneous Sampling Data for Geostatistical Estimations of Benzo(A)Pyrene Concentrations in a Former Gas Works....Pages 429-440
Geostatistical Modeling of Regionalized Grain-Size Distributions Using Min/Max Autocorrelation Factors....Pages 441-452
Fine Scale Soil Texture Estimation Using Soil Maps and Profile Descriptions....Pages 453-462
A Comparison of Geostatistical Simulation Approaches for Estimating the Spatial Uncertainty of Soil Texture....Pages 463-474
Accounting for Soft Information in Mapping Soil Contamination with TPH at an Oil Storage Site....Pages 475-485
Geostatistical Analysis of PCB-Contaminated Sediment in a Commercial Dock, Swansea, UK....Pages 487-497
Comparison of Geostatistical Algorithms For Completing Groundwater Monitoring Well Time Series Using Data of a Nearby River....Pages 499-500
Data Assimilation and Geostatistics in Ecological Modeling....Pages 501-502
Spatial Patterns of Soil Seed-Bank Related to Some Soil Properties....Pages 503-504
Geostatistical Analysis for Characterization of Gully Topographic Features in Olive Tree Areas....Pages 505-506
Probabilistic Assessment of Groundwater Contamination by Nitrate....Pages 507-508
BME Analysis of Neural Network Residual Data from the Chernobyl Fallout: Bayesian and Non-Bayesian Approaches....Pages 509-510
Spatial Analysis of Soil Physical Properties in a UK Upland Subcatchment....Pages 511-512
Digital Terrain Modelling with Geostatistics....Pages 513-514
The PLS Regression in Spatial Statistical Estimation....Pages 515-516
Complex Geometry of Depositional Facies Within a Coastal Aquifer System: Three-dimensional Mapping of Confining Layers and Hydrogeologic Implications....Pages 517-518
Geostatistical Approach for Mapping SPT Values at Lisbon....Pages 519-520
Use of Multivariate Indices to Characterise Hydrogeochemical Data. Application to the Alluvial Aquifer of Alto Guadalentín , SE Spain....Pages 521-522
Evaluation of Deleterious and Toxic Elements Contents in Cu−Ag Ores from Lubin — Glogow District, SW Poland....Pages 523-524
Spatial Prediction of Diameter Distribution Models in Forestry....Pages 525-526
Geostatistical Analysis of Stereoscopic Pairs of Satellite Images....Pages 527-528
GIS-Based Classification and Indicator Simulation of Groundwater Vulnerability Characteristics....Pages 529-530
Spatial Variability of Heavy Metals in an Agricultural Watershed in Galicia, Spain....Pages 531-532
Effect of Soil Properties on Vegetation Diversity in a Created Hay Meadow....Pages 533-534
Spatial Analysis of Patchy Vegetation on Semi-Arid Steppe....Pages 535-537
Back Matter....Pages 539-540