geoENV VI – Geostatistics for Environmental Applications

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.

Environment and Health.- Geostatistical Analysis of Health Data: State-of-the-Art and Perspectives.- Early Detection and Assessment of Epidemics by Particle Filtering.- Improvement of Forecast Noise Levels in Confined Spaces by Means of Geostatistical Methods.- Geostatistical Modeling of Environmental Sound Propagation.- Geostatistical Estimation of Electromagnetic Exposure.- How Spatial Analysis Can Help in Predicting the Level of Radioactive Contamination of Cereals.- Stochastic Modelling Applied to Air Quality Space-Time Characterization.- Automatic Mapping Algorithm of Nitrogen Dioxide Levels from Monitoring Air Pollution Data Using Classical Geostatistical Approach: Application to the French Lille City.- King Prawn Catch by Grade Category from an Economic and a Stock Management Perspective.- Hydrology.- Machine Learning Methods for Inverse Modeling.- Statistical Moments of Reaction Rates in Subsurface Reactive Solute Transport.- Including Conceptual Model Information when Kriging Hydraulic Heads.- Effect of Sorption Processes on Pump-and-Treat Remediation Practices Under Heterogeneous Conditions.- A Stochastic Approach to Estimate Block Dispersivities that Includes the Effect of Mass Transfer Between Grid Blocks.- Fracture Analysis and Flow Simulations in the Roselend Fractured Granite.- Assessment of Groundwater Salinisation Risk Using Multivariate Geostatistics.- A MultiGaussian Kriging Application to the Environmental Impact Assessment of a New Industrial Site in Alcoy (Spain).- Hydrogeological Modeling of Radionuclide Transport in Heterogeneous Low-Permeability Media: A Comparison Between Boom Clay and Ieper Clay.- Topological Kriging of Runoff.- Meteorology.- Quantifying the Impact of the North Atlantic Oscillation on Western Iberia.- Monthly Average Temperature Modelling.- Improving the Areal Estimation of Rainfall in Galicia (NW Spain) Using Digital Elevation Information.- Identification of Inhomogeneities in Precipitation Time Series Using Stochastic Simulation.- Bayesian Classification of a Meteorological Risk Index for Forest Fires: DSR.- Remote Sensing.- Super Resolution Mapping with Multiple Point Geostatistics.- Super-Resolution Mapping Using the Two-Point Histogram and Multi-Source Imagery.- Dating Fire Events on End of Season Maps of Burnt Scars.- Influence of Climate Variability on Wheat Production in Portugal.- Soil.- Joint Simulation of Mine Spoil Uncertainty for Rehabilitation Decision Making.- Temporal Geostatistical Analyses of N2O Fluxes from Differently Treated Soils.- Zinc Baseline Level and its Relationship with Soil Texture in Flanders, Belgium.- Assessing the Quality of the Soil by Stochastic Simulation.- Interpolation of Soil Moisture Content Aided by FDR Sensor Observations.- Geostatistics for Contaminated Sites and Soils: Some Pending Questions.- Evaluation of an Automatic Procedure Basedon Geostatistical Methods for the Characterization of Contaminated Sediments.- Methods.- Nonlinear Spatial Prediction with Non-Gaussian Data: A Maximum Entropy Viewpoint.- Data Fusion in a Spatial Multivariate Framework: Trading off Hypotheses Against Information.- The Challenge of Real-Time Automatic Mapping for Environmental Monitoring Network Management.- Geostatistical Applications of Spartan Spatial Random Fields.- A New Parallelization Approach for Sequential Simulation.- Clustering in Environmental Monitoring Networks: Dimensional Resolutions and Pattern Detection.