geoENV VII - Geostatistics for Environmental Applications

by Peter M. Atkinson (Editor), C. D. Lloyd (Editor)

Overview

This volume brings together selected contributions from geoENV 2008, the 7th International Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications, held in Southampton, UK, in September 2008. This book presents the state-of-the-art in geostatistics for the environmental sciences. It includes a wide range of methodological advances and applications. It offers insight and guidance for researchers, professionals, graduate students and others seeking information on the latest perspectives in the field. The rich body of applications will enable those new to geostatistics to assess the utility of the methods for their own applications.

The book includes 35 chapters on topics as diverse as methodological developments, applications in the soil sciences, climatology, pollution, health, wildlife mapping, fisheries and remote sensing, amongst other areas. With its focus on environmental applications of geostatistics, rather than the more traditional geostatistical remit of mining and petroleum exploration, this book is part of a series that presents an invaluable resource. This book will be a first port of call for those who wish to apply geostatistical methods in the environmental sciences.

Audience:

Researchers, scientists, professionals, institutes, libraries, graduate students of geosciences, geostatistics, spatial statistics, environmental science and engineering, ecology, oceanography, climatology, hydrology, soil and forestry science.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789048123216
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	05/28/2010
Series:	Quantitative Geology and Geostatistics , #16
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	420
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

Part I Biology

Geostatistical Modelling of Wildlife Populations: A Non-stationary Hierarchical Model for Count Data Edwige Bellier Pascal Monestiez Christophe Guinet 1

Incorporating Survey Data to Improve Space-Time Geostatistical Analysis of King Prawn Catch Rate Ainslie Denham Ute Mueller 13

Part II Climate

Multivariate Interpolation of Monthly Precipitation Amount in the United Kingdom Christopher D. Lloyd 27

Extreme Precipitation Modelling Using Geostatistics and Machine Learning Algorithms Loris Foresti Alexei Pozdnoukhov Devis Tuia Mikhail Kanevski 41

On Geostatistical Analysis of Rainfall Using Data from Boundary Sites José Manuel Mirás Avalos Patricia Sande Fouz Eva Vidal Vázquez 53

Geostatistics Applied to the City of Porto Urban Climatology Joaquim Góis Henrique Garcia Pereira Ana Rita Salgueiro 65

Integrating Meteorological Dynamic Data and Historical Data into a Stochastic Model for Predicting Forest Fires Risk Maps Rita Durão Amílcar Soares 77

Part III Health

Using Geostatistical Methods in the Analysis of Public Health Data: The Final Frontier? Linda J. Young Carol A. Gotway 89

Second-Order Analysis of the Spatio-temporal Distribution of Human Campylobacteriosis in Preston, Lancashire Edith Gabriel Peter J. Diggle 99

Application of Geostatistics in Cancer Studies Pierre Goovaerts 107

Part IV Hydrology

Blocking Markov Chain Monte Carlo Schemes for Inverse Stochastic Hydrogeological Modeling J. Jaime Gómez-Hernández Jianlin Fu 121

Simulation of Fine-Scale Heterogeneity of Meandering River Aquifer Analogues: Comparing Different Approaches Diana dell' Arciprete Fabrizio Felletti Riccardo Bersezio 127

Application of Multiple-Point Geostatistics on Modelling Groundwater Flow and Transport in a Cross-Bedded Aquifer Marijke Huysmans Alain Dassargues 139

Part V Pollution

Assessment of the Impact of Pollution by Arsenic in the Vicinity of Panasqueira Mine (Portugal) Ana Rita Salgueiro Paula Helena Ávila Henrique Garcia Pereira Eduardo Ferreira da Silva 151

Simulation of Continuous Variables at Meander Structures: Application to Contaminated Sediments of a Lagoon Ana Horta Maria Helena Caeiro Ruben Nunes Amílcar Soares 161

Joint Space-Time Geostatistical Model for Air Quality Surveillance/Monitoring System Ana Russo Amílcar Soares Maria João Pereira Ricardo M. Trigo 173

Geostatistical Methods for Polluted Sites Characterization Amílcar Soares 187

Geostatistical Mapping of Outfall Plume Dispersion Data Gathered with an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Maurici Monego Patrícia Ramos Mário V. Neves 199

Part VI Soils and Agriculture

Change of the A Priori Stochastic Structure in the Conditional Simulation of Transmissivity Fields Carlos Llopis-Albert José Esteban Capilla Romá 211

Geostatistical Interpolation of Soil Properties in Boom Clay in Flanders Annelies Govaerts André Vervoort 219

An Examination of Transformation Techniques to Investigate and Interpret Multivariate Geochemical Data Analysis: Tellus Case Study Jennifer McKinley Oy Leuangthong 231

Shelling in the First World War Increased the Soil Heavy Metal Concentration Meklit Tariku Marc Van Meirvenne Filip Tack 243

A Geostatistical Analysis of Rubber Tree Growth Characteristics and Soil Physical Attributes Sidney Rosa Vieira Luiza Honora Pierre Célia Regina Grego Glécio Machado Siqueira Jorge Dafonte Dafonte 255

Investigating the Potential of Area-to-Area and Area-to-Point Kriging for Defining Management Zones for Precision Farming of Cranberries Ruth Kerry Daniel Giménez Peter Oudemans Pierre Goovaerts 265

Part VII Theory

Estimating the Local Small Support Semivariogram for Use in Super-Resolution Mapping Peter Michael Atkinson Chockalingam Jeganathan 279

Modeling Spatial Uncertainty for Locally Uncertain Data Elena Savelyeva Sergey Utkin Sergey Kazakov Vasyliy Demyanov 295

Spatial Interpolation Using Copula-Based Geostatistical Models Hannes Kazianka Jürgen Pilz 307

Exchanging Uncertainty: Interoperable Geostatistics? Matthew Williams Dan Cornford Lucy Bastin Ben Ingram 321

Hierarchical Bayesian Model for Gaussian, Poisson and Ordinal Random Fields Pierrette Chagneau Frédéric Mortier Nicolas Picard Jean-Noël Bacro 333

Detection of Optimal Models in Parameter Space with Support Vector Machines Vasily Demyanov Alexei Pozdnoukhov Mike Christie Mikhail Kanevski 345

Robust Automatic Mapping Algorithms in a Network Monitoring Scenario Ben Ingram Dan Cornford Lehel Csató 359

Parallel Geostatistics for Sparse and Dense Datasets Ben Ingram Dan Cornford 371

Multiple Point Geostatistical Simulation with Simulated Annealing: Implementation Using Speculative Parallel Computing Julián M. Ortiz Oscar Peredo 383

Application of Copulas in Geostatistics Claus P. Haslauer Jing Li András Bádossy 395

Integrating Prior Knowledge and Locally Varying Parameters with Moving-GeoStatistics: Methodology and Application to Bathymetric Mapping Cedric Magneron Nicolas Jeannee Olivier Le Moine Jean-François Bourillet 405

Index 417