Geostatistical and Geospatial Approaches for the Characterization of Natural Resources in the Environment: Challenges, Processes and Strategies

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Singularity-Based Geo-Information Extraction for Characterizing Mineralization-Associated Geological Processes in Gejiu Mineral District, China....Pages 3-9
Compositionally Compliant Contact Analysis....Pages 11-14
Kernel Principal Component Analysis in the Application of Geochemical Comprehensive Feature Extraction....Pages 15-19
Abnormal Extraction of Geochemical Data Based on Kalman Filter and SVM....Pages 21-27
Summed Area Table for Rapid Local Singularity Mapping....Pages 29-34
Application of a Coherent Multi-Dimensional Technique to the Central Part of the Mexican Volcanic Belt....Pages 35-38
Multivariate Grid-Free Geostatistical Simulation of Natural Phenomena....Pages 39-43
Semianalytical Solutions for Multispecies Transport Coupled with a Sequential First-Order Reaction Network Using GITT Techniques....Pages 45-49
Compositional Statistical Analysis of Inter-Laboratory Comparisons of Geothermal Water....Pages 51-55
Fractal Characterization via Morphological Analysis....Pages 57-64
Geostatistical Analysis of Functional Compositions: Characterization of Soil Particle-Size Curves through the Aitchison Geometry....Pages 65-69
Classical Statistical Techniques for Deciphering the Origin and Evolution of Volcanoes at Volcanic Front of the Central Part of the Mexican Volcanic Belt....Pages 71-75
Forecasting of Hollows in Abandoned Shallow Coal Mines in a Zone of Intensive Weathering....Pages 77-81
Metallurgical Variable Re-expression for Geostatistics....Pages 83-88
Parameter Estimation and Sensitivity Analysis in Clastic Sedimentation Modeling....Pages 89-93
Study on Chaotic Time Series and Its Application on Forecasting Water Inrush in Mines....Pages 95-99
p-T Computation Schemes for Thermodynamic Properties of Pure Water: A Comparative Evaluation of IAPWS-95 and IAPWS-IF97 Formulations....Pages 101-104
Statistical Lobe Hierarchy Constraint in Surface-based Reservoir Modeling....Pages 105-110
Transport of Molecular Fluids through Three-Dimensional Porous Media....Pages 111-114
Statistical Scale-up of Reservoir Properties and Dispersivities in Heterogeneous Reservoirs....Pages 115-120
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Sediment Concentration Prediction at Gangotri in the Himalayas Using Artificial Neural Networks....Pages 121-127
Lacunarity Analysis of Fracture Intensity Maps: Are they Multifractals?....Pages 129-134
Modified Tetrahedral Mesh Subdivision Method and Its Application in 3D Geological Body Discrete Analysis....Pages 135-140
High Performance Computing of Hydrothermal Ore-Forming Systems: An Approach Based on the Lattice Boltzmann Method....Pages 141-145
Resurrecting GSLIB by Code Optimization and Multi-core Programming....Pages 147-152
Distribution Law for Mineral and Chemical Constituent Fractions in Rocks and Ores....Pages 153-157
Comparison of Spatial Interpolation Methods for Mapping Rainfall in Indian Himalayas of Uttarakhand Region....Pages 159-168
A Time Series Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Rainfall at Pampa River Basin, Kerala, India....Pages 169-172
Rainfall Statistics Change in West Bengal (India) from Period 1901-2000....Pages 173-181
Groundwater Fluctuation and Trend in Amritsar, Punjab, India....Pages 183-187
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Groundwater Quality Appraisal in Parts of Dun Valley Aquifers in the Terai Region, Central Nepal....Pages 191-198
GIS and Geostatistical Assessment of Groundwater and Its Pollution in Kuwait....Pages 199-205
Geomorphological Influence on Groundwater Quality and Arsenic Distribution in Parts of Brahmaputra River Basin Adjoining Eastern Himalayas....Pages 207-211
Vulnerability of Ground Water Quality to Changing Climate: A Case Study from Kalpitiya Peninsula, Sri Lanka....Pages 213-220
Hydrogeochemical Assessment to Explore the Extent, Nature and Source of Fluoride Contamination within the Groundwaters of the Panda River Basin, Sonbhadra District, Uttar Pradesh, India....Pages 221-229
Presence of Uranium in Groundwater of Punjab: An Overview....Pages 231-236
Groundwater Sources in Semi-Arid Regions and Their Vulnerability to Climate Change: Drâa Catchment, Morocco....Pages 237-243
Assessment of Groundwater Recharge due to Monsoon in Ozar Watershed of Maharashtra State Using Isotopic Technique....Pages 245-249
Application of Statistical Techniques to Identify the Hydrogeochemical Processes in Coastal Aquifers of Pondicherry Region, Tamil Nadu....Pages 251-258
Isotope Hydrogeological Factors Control Transport of Radon-222 in Hard Rock Fractured Aquifer of Bangalore, Karnataka....Pages 259-265
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Groundwater Arsenic Contamination Affecting Different Geological Domains in India: Its Relation to Fluvial Geomorphology and Quaternary Stratigraphy....Pages 267-273
Ground Water Sustainability in Varanasi District, Uttar Pradesh: Current Situation and Need for Effective Strategies....Pages 275-279
Discharge Pattern in the Gunt Valley, Western Pamir, with respect to δ2H, δ18O and Hydrochemistry....Pages 281-284
Environmental Isotope Investigation to Understand the Groundwater Recharge from Irrigation Tanks in Thirumal Area, Madurai....Pages 285-291
Quantitative Provenance Analysis of Sediments in the Changjiang (Yangtze) River (China)....Pages 293-300
Textural Variation of Sediments in the Course of a Small River: A case study from Khurar River, Khajuraho, Chhaterpur District, Madhya Pradesh, India....Pages 301-306
Particle Size Characteristics of Ramganga Catchment Area of Ganga River....Pages 307-312
Spatial and Temporal Variability in Grain Sizes of Alaknanda River....Pages 313-319
Characterization of the Rainfall of Central Mozambique Based on Isotopes of Water....Pages 321-325
Control of Deteriorating Water Quality in Extracted Boreholes by Flow Systems Definition....Pages 327-332
Canal Irrigation and Its Impact on Spatial and Temporal Variation in Groundwater Level: A Case Study in Indira Gandhi Canal Project Stage I Command Area....Pages 333-339
Impact of Canal Recharge on Groundwater Quality of Kolayat Area, District Bikaner, India....Pages 341-347
Domestic Wastewater Treatment Using Tanfloc: A Tannin Based Coagulant....Pages 349-354
Persistent Pesticides in Fluvial Sediment and Their Relationship with Black Carbon....Pages 355-359
Relationship between Physicochemical Parameters and Toxicity of Leachate from Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Site in Delhi....Pages 361-367
Effects of Coal Mining Activities on Soil Properties with Special Reference to Heavy Metals....Pages 369-372
Coal Mining and Organic Pollutants: A Case of Mahanadi Basin Coalfields, India....Pages 373-379
Impact of Tillage and Residue Management Practices on Soil Aggregates and Soil Organic Carbon....Pages 381-384
Effect of Land Cover on Soil Particle Size and Organic Carbon in the Plough Layer....Pages 385-390
Sodicity Status of Salt-Affected Soils of Israna, Haryana, India....Pages 391-396
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Characterizing and Quantifying the Effect of Aerosol Optical Depth over North Indian Plain during Harvesting Season....Pages 397-404
Evaluation of Urban Air Pollution Distribution in the Colombo Municipal Council Area, Sri Lanka....Pages 405-414
Platinum, Palladium and Rhodium in Road Dust/Top Soils from Major South Indian Cities: Implications on Environment and Human Health....Pages 415-420
Longer Growing Season Decreases Peak Summer Vegetation Productivity in North American Ecosystems....Pages 421-426
Species Diversity and Regeneration Status in Sabaiya Collaborative Forest, Nepal....Pages 427-433
Treatment of Coke Oven Effluents by Duckweeds Ponds – A Laboratory Scale Study....Pages 435-439
Front Matter....Pages 441-441
Zonal Crustal Movement....Pages 443-447
Tectonic Setting of Basic Rocks of Borborema Province, Brazil, Inferred from Multi-Dimensional Discrimination Diagrams....Pages 449-453
Tectonomagmatic Origin of Igneous Rocks from the Western Mexican Volcanic Belt....Pages 455-459
Global Sub-Crustal Stress Field....Pages 461-465
A Blind-wavelet Algorithm and Its Application to the Metal Mine Seismic Data Processing....Pages 467-473
Study of N-dimensional Matrices and Its Application in Geology....Pages 475-481
Small- to Large-Scale Rock Fracture Patterns as Indicators of Shock-Related Fragmentation....Pages 483-489
Distribution Study of Ore-Sourced Elements from a Long Drill-Core in a Loess-Covered Area....Pages 491-495
Hydrothermal Activity in the NE Portion of the Sewell Rise, Central Andaman Trough: Evidences from Multibeam and Petrographic Studies....Pages 497-501
Studies on the Seismicity in Garhwal Himalaya, India....Pages 503-512
Shear Seam in Dam Foundation System....Pages 513-521
Geothermobarometry and Barrovian Metamorphism of Darjeeling-Mangpu Region, Eastern Himalaya....Pages 523-526
High Pressure and Ultrahigh Temperature Metamorphism at Diguva Sonaba, Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt (India): New Constraints from Phase Equilibria Modelling....Pages 527-531
Spatial Distribution of Seismic Site Coefficients for Guwahati City....Pages 533-537
Front Matter....Pages 441-441
Application of GIS-Based Weights of Evidence Method for Metallogenic Prediction to Copper Resources in Western Region of Zhejiang, China....Pages 539-544
Application of Fuzzy Gamma Operator in Landslide Susceptibility Mapping along Yercaud Ghat Road Section, Tamil Nadu, India....Pages 545-553
A Benchmark Synthetic Dataset for Fractured Reservoir....Pages 555-561
Front Matter....Pages 563-563
Three-Dimensional Metallogenic Prediction in Tonglushan Region Based on Digital Ore Deposit Model....Pages 565-569
The Integration Model of Deep Structure and Ore-Forming Systems of the Pechenga District (Baltic Shield)....Pages 571-576
Joint Conditional Simulation of an Iron Ore Deposit Using Minimum or Maximum Autocorrelation Factor Transformation....Pages 577-582
Digital Modeling in the Study of Heavy Mineral Placers....Pages 583-588
Working with Hierarchical Databases in R to Model Geometallurgical Data....Pages 589-592
Application of Empirical Model Decomposition and Independent Component Analysis to Magnetic Anomalies Separation: A Case Study for Gobi Desert Coverage in Eastern Tianshan, China....Pages 593-598
3D Modeling of Urban Geological Body Based on the KDA Method for Beijing City, China....Pages 599-604
Generalized Compensation Model for the Gravimetric Moho Recovery....Pages 605-608
Colloidal Transport under Nonlinear Sorption in a Single Variable Fracture Aperture....Pages 609-616
A Markov Chain Monte Carlo-based Particle Filter Approach for Spatiotemporal Modelling of an Environmental Process....Pages 617-621
Using Stratigraphic Forward Modeling to Model the Brookian Sequence of the Alaska North Slope....Pages 623-626
Numerical Simulation of Migration of Seismic Activity (On the Example of Kamchatka)....Pages 627-629
Comparative Performance of Thirteen Single Outlier Discordancy Tests from Monte Carlo Simulations....Pages 631-636
3D Crustal Temperature Modeling over Japan for Geothermal Resource Assessment....Pages 637-641
A Nonstationary Nonlinear Geostatistical Model and Its Application in a Beach Sand Deposit for Recoverable Reserve Estimation....Pages 643-649
Contextualized Geographically Weighted Principal Components Analysis for Investigating Baseline Soils Data on the North Wyke Farm Platform....Pages 651-655
Downscaling of Precipitation in Mahanadi Basin, India Using Support Vector Machine, K-Nearest Neighbour and Hybrid of Support Vector Machine with K-Nearest Neighbour....Pages 657-663
Front Matter....Pages 563-563
A Precipitation-Runoff Simulation Model for Flood Forecasting of River Tel, Odisha, India....Pages 665-670
Dynamics of Overland Flow under Changing Cropping Pattern: A Spatial Modeling Approach in Penganga Sub-watershed....Pages 671-677
Challenges of Including Groundwater Depth in a Liquefaction Loss Model....Pages 679-684
Stochastic Quantification of Low-Resolution Geocoding Uncertainty and Its Application to Catastrophe Modeling....Pages 685-689
An Improvised Effective Oceanography Monitoring Using Large Area Underwater Sensor Networks....Pages 691-699
Front Matter....Pages 701-701
The Extraction of Oil and Gas Information by Using SAS Imagery in the Jimusaer Field, Xinjiang-Clay Alteration Minerals....Pages 703-709
Characterization of Sampling Error in Instantaneous Orbital Data Products of TRMM over Indian Subcontinent....Pages 711-714
Estimation of Regional Groundwater System in a Granitic Body by 3D Permeable Zone Modeling and Flow Simulation....Pages 715-718
Hyperspectral Image Classification Using a New Dictionary Learning Approach with Structured Sparse Representation....Pages 719-722
Estimating Land Surface Temperature and its Lapse Rate over Kashmir Valley Using MODIS Data....Pages 723-728
Combining Quantitation of Remote Sensing Information of Local Structures and Calculation of Structural Stress Field....Pages 729-733
Research on GIS-Based 3D Prospectivity Mapping and a Case Study of Jiama Copper-Polymetallic Deposit in Tibet, China....Pages 735-740
Inferring Land Surface Processes from Watershed Characterization....Pages 741-744
Investigation of Seepage Channel Using Remote Sensing Technique in Jodhpur City, Rajasthan....Pages 745-748
Monitoring Snow Cover Area Using Different Algorithms on Indian Remote Sensing Data....Pages 749-753
Optimization of Neural Networks for Multisource Classification in a Glaciated Terrain....Pages 755-759
Generation of Stream Length Gradient Index Map Using Visual Basic Program – A Case Study from South India....Pages 761-765
Three Dimensional Quantitative Extraction and Integration for Geosciences Information: A Case Study of Nannihu Mo Deposit Area....Pages 767-771
Multi-Classifier Fusion for Land Use Land Cover Mapping in Jharia Coal Field....Pages 773-777
Land Use and Land Cover Changes and Their Impacts on Floods in Pampa River Basin in Kerala: A Remote Sensing Based Analysis....Pages 779-783
Front Matter....Pages 701-701
Spatio-Temporal Study of the Distribution of Land Use and Land Cover Change Pattern in Chandigarh, India Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques....Pages 785-789
Development of Technique to Characterize TROF....Pages 791-795
Study of the Urban Green Space Planning Using Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing Approaches for the City of Colombo, Sri Lanka....Pages 797-800
Prediction of Crop Suitability of Certain Indian Spices – A GIS Approach....Pages 801-807
Morphometric and Hydrological Study of Alaknanda and Bhagirathi Basins....Pages 809-815
Role of Remote Sensing Data in Geoenvironmental Mapping: Case Studies from Syria....Pages 817-822
Integrating Smart Platforms to Analyze Energy Patterns in Academic Building....Pages 823-827
An Integrated Golden Spike Information Portal Enabled by Data Visualization and Semantic Web Technologies....Pages 829-833
Web-based Facility Management System Using Open Source GIS....Pages 835-839
Front Matter....Pages 841-841
Estimation of Wind Speed in the Suburban Atmospheric Surface Layer....Pages 843-847
Role of Arabian Sea Surface Pressure on Indian Northeast Monsoon....Pages 849-853
Effect of Dust on the Indian Summer Monsoon....Pages 855-859
Study of Physical and Dynamical Processes in the Ionosphere at Equatorial Anomaly Crest Region during Magnetic Storm for High and Low Solar Activity Period....Pages 861-866
Winter Hailstorm over New Delhi, India....Pages 867-871
Spatio-Temporal Variability of Rainfall and Temperature in Northeast India....Pages 873-879
Surface Energy and Mass Balance on the Ablation Zone of Chorabari Glacier, Central Himalaya, India....Pages 881-885
Monitoring the Status of Siachen Glacier Using Multi Temporal Remote Sensing Approach....Pages 887-891
Monitoring Glacial Parameters in Parts of Zanskar Basin, Jammu and Kashmir....Pages 893-897
An Analysis of Pattern of Changes in Snow Cover in the Upper Beas River Basin, Western Himalaya....Pages 899-903
Stream Flow Changes and Glacier Recession in the Upper Indus Basin....Pages 905-908
Front Matter....Pages 841-841
Hydrological Modeling and Streamflow Characterization of Gangotri Glacier....Pages 909-915
Abundance of Cycladophora davisiana Used as an Indicator for Paleoenvironment of Kerguelen Plateau, Southern Ocean Region....Pages 917-921
Conservation Agriculture – A New Paradigm for Climate Change Mitigation in Rainfed Indian Agriculture....Pages 923-929
Perspective of the Agriculture Development of the Mountain Areas in Modern Condition of Climate Change....Pages 931-935
In the Face of Changing Climate: Groundwater Development through Artificial Recharge in Hard Rock Terrain of Kumaun Lesser Himalaya....Pages 937-947
Sustainable Biochar - A Tool for Climate Change Mitigation, Soil Management and Water and Wastewater Treatment....Pages 949-952
Modelling Paleo-Geomorphology of Wave-Dominated Sandy and Tide-Influenced Muddy Coastal Embayments on the Decadal to Centennial Scale: A Comparative Study....Pages 953-958
A First-order Non-linear Differential Equation Characterizing Multiple Types of Probability Distributions....Pages 959-963
Back Matter....Pages 965-969