Exploratory data analysis and clustering of multivariate spatial hydrogeological data by means of GEO3DSOM, a variant of Kohonen's self-organizing map

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1309-1321

  Peeters, L ^a   Bacao F ^b   Lobo, V ^b,c   Dassargues, A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b NOVA INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SCHOOL NOVA IMS   (Portugal)

^c Academia Naval Almada   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CENOZOIC; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA SET; EXPLORATION; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34248588053     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-11-1309-2007     Document Type: Article

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