Assessing the risk of soil contamination in the Swiss Jura using indicator geostatistics

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 31-48

  Goovaerts, P ^a,d,e   Webster, R ^{a,b,c,f,g,h,i}   Dubois, J P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d FUND FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Belgium)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^h ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

ⁱ Snow Landscape Res

Author keywords

Geostatistics; Indicators; Kriging; Pollution; Risk; Soil; Swiss Jura; Threshold

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

CADMIUM; COPPER; GEOSTATISTICS; KRIGING; LEAD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL CONTAMINATION; SOIL POLLUTION;

SWITZERLAND, JURA;

EID: 0031411669     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1018553807765     Document Type: Article

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