Detection of organic pollutants in sandy soils via TDR and eigendecomposition

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Volumn 76, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 235-249

  Mohamed, A M O ^a   Said, R A ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Autoregressive modeling; Eigendecomposition; Eigenvalues and eigenvectors; Pollution detection; Singular value decomposition; TDR

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECOMPOSITION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; PETROLEUM PRODUCTS; WATER;

EIGENDECOMPOSITION TECHNIQUES; ORGANIC FLUIDS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; TIME DOMAIN RELECTROMETRY (TDR);

SOIL POLLUTION;

ALCOHOL; DIESEL FUEL; FUEL OIL; METHANOL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; WATER;

BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; DETECTION METHOD; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POREWATER; SANDY SOIL; SOIL POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; EIGENDECOMPOSITION; LIQUID; ORGANIC POLLUTION; OSCILLATION; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SANDY SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT; SOIL POLLUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TECHNIQUE; TIME DOMAIN RELECTROMETRY; WATER CONTENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ETHANOL; METHANOL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PETROLEUM; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 15744369779     PISSN: 01697722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2004.09.002     Document Type: Article

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