Application of integrated methods in mapping waste disposal areas

Environmental Geology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 661-675

  Soupios, Pantelis ^a   Papadopoulos, Nikos ^b,c   Papadopoulos, Ilias ^a,c   Kouli, Maria ^a   Vallianatos, Filippos ^a   Sarris, Apostolos ^b   Manios, Thrassyvoulos ^a  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Crete Island; Environmental geophysics; Landfill

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HYDROGEOLOGY; LAND FILL; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SOLID WASTES;

ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE TOMOGRAPHY (ERT); ELECTROMAGNETIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL GEOPHYSICS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE;

WASTE DISPOSAL;

GEOMETRY; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; HYDROGEOLOGY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LANDFILL; MAPPING; TECTONIC SETTING; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

CRETE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 35649026902     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-007-0681-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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