geoENV IV — Geostatistics for Environmental Applications: Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications held in Barcelona, Spain, November 27–29, 2002

Two Statistical Methods for Improving the Analysis of Large Climatic Data Sets: General Skewed Kalman Filters and Distributions of Distributions....Pages 1-14
Super-Resolution Land Cover Classification Using the Two-Point Histogram....Pages 15-28
Non Parametric Variogram Estimator. Application to Air Pollution Data....Pages 29-40
Improving Satellite Image Forest Cover Classification with Field Data Using Direct Sequential Cosimulation....Pages 41-54
Use of Factorial Kriging to Incorporate Meteorological Information in Estimation of Air Pollutants....Pages 55-65
High Resolution Ozone Mapping Using Instruments on the Nimbus 7 Satellite and Secondary Information....Pages 67-78
Geostatistical Digital Image Merging....Pages 79-90
On the Effect of Positional Uncertainty in Field Measurements on the Atmospheric Correction of Remotely Sensed Imagery....Pages 91-102
Geostatistical Space-Time Simulation Model for Characterization of Air Quality....Pages 103-114
Soft Data Space/Time Mapping of Coarse Particulate Matter Annual Arithmetic Average Over the U.S....Pages 115-126
Characterization of Population and Recovery of Iberian Hare in Portugal Through Direct Sequential Co-Simulation....Pages 127-138
Uncertainty Management for Environmental Risk Assessment Using Geostatistical Simulations....Pages 139-150
A Spatial Assessment of the Average Annual Water Balance in Andalucia....Pages 151-162
Modeling Phytoplankton: Covariance and Variogram Model Specification for Phytoplankton Levels in Lake Michigan....Pages 163-173
Geostatistical Inverse Problem: A Modified Technique for Characterizing Heterogeneous Fields....Pages 175-186
2D Particle Tracking Under Radial Flow in Heterogeneous Media Conditioned at the Well....Pages 187-198
Comparison of Geostatistical Algorithms for Completing Groundwater Monitoring Well Timeseries Using Data of a Nearby River....Pages 199-210
A Geostatistical Model for Distribution of Facies in Highly Heterogeneous Aquifers....Pages 211-222
Influence of Uncertainty of Mean Transmissivity, Transmissivity Variogram and Boundary Conditions on Estimation of Well Capture Zones....Pages 223-234
Evaluation of Different Measures of Flow and Transport Connectivity of Geologic Media....Pages 235-246
Modeling of Reactive Contaminant Transport in Hydraulically and Hydrogeochemically Heterogeneous Aquifers Using a Geostatistical Facies Approach....Pages 247-258
Effect of Heterogeneity on Aquifer Reclamation Time....Pages 259-270
Spatial Prediction of Categorical Variables: The BME Approach....Pages 271-282
Optimizing Sampling for Acceptable Accuracy Levels on Remediation Volume and Cost Estimations....Pages 283-294
Combining Categorical Information with the Bayesian Maximum Entropy Approach....Pages 295-306
Sequential Updating Simulation....Pages 307-318
Variance-Covariance Modeling and Estimation for Multi-Resolution Spatial Models....Pages 319-330
Geostatistical Interpolation and Simulation in the Presence of Barriers....Pages 331-342
A Spectral Test of Nonstationarity for Spatial Processes....Pages 343-354
Optimization of an Estuarine Monitoring Program: Selecting the Best Spatial Distribution....Pages 355-366
Geostatistical Analysis of Three Dimensional Current Patterns in Coastal Oceanography: Application to the Gulf of Lions (NW Mediterranean Sea)....Pages 367-378
Interpolation of Rainfall at Small Scale in a Mediterranean Region....Pages 379-389
Automatic Modeling of Cross-Covariances for Rainfal Estimation Using Raingage and Radar Data....Pages 391-399
Combining Raingages and Radar Precipitation Measurements Using a Bayesian Approach....Pages 401-412
Spatio-Temporal Kriging of Soil Salinity Rescaled from Bulk Soil Electrical Conductivity....Pages 413-424
Characterization of Environmental Hazard Maps of Metal Contamination in Guadiamar River Margins....Pages 425-436
Detecting Zones of Abrupt Change: Application to Soil Data....Pages 437-448
Optimal Regional Sampling Network to Analyse Environmental Pollution by Heavy Metals Using Indirect Methods. Case Study: Galicia (NW of Spain)....Pages 449-460
Estimating the Grades of Polluted Industrial Sites: Use of Categorical Information and Comparison with Threshold Values....Pages 461-472
A Co-Estimation Methodology for Mapping Dioxins Measured by Biomonitors....Pages 473-484
Spatial Variability of Soil Properties at Hillslope Level....Pages 485-496
Front Matter....Pages 497-497
The simple but meaningful contribution of Geostatistics: three case studies....Pages 498-499
Evolution, Neoteny, and Semi-Variogram Model Fitting Search....Pages 500-501
Kriging of hydraulic head field for a confined aquifer....Pages 502-503
Bathimetric Morphological Classification using a Geostatistical Approach: an application to the Alboran Sea (S of Spain)....Pages 504-505
A strategy for groundwater protection from nitrate leaching using spatial and geostatistical analyses....Pages 506-507
Visualizing Hake Recruitment A Non-Stationary Process....Pages 508-509
Monitoring in Two Markov Chain Markov Field Models....Pages 510-511
Geostatistical inversion of flow and transport data. Application to the CRR protect....Pages 512-513
Statistical Learning Theory for Spatial Data....Pages 514-515
Geostatistical Analysis of Trace Elements at Small Catchment in Finisterre (Spain)....Pages 516-517
Comparison between Kriging, MLP and RBF in a slate mine....Pages 518-519
Estimating Spatial Variability of Temperature....Pages 520-521
Spatial Variability of Soil pH and Eh before and after Flooding a Rice Field....Pages 522-523
Total Catch and Effort in the Shark Bay King Prawn Fishery....Pages 524-525
Using Geostatistics to Assess the Area of Spatial Representativity of Air Quality Monitoring Stations....Pages 526-527
Architecture of Fault Zones in a Granitic Massif Determined from Outcrop, Cores, 3-D Seismic Tomography and Geostatistical Modeling....Pages 528-529
Creation of a Digital Elevation Model of the Water Table in a Sandstone Aquifer....Pages 530-531
!A geostatistically interpolated Digital Elevation Model of Galicia (Northwest Spain)....Pages 532-533
The Spatial Dependence of Soil Surface Microrelief....Pages 534-535