Investigations on indoor Radon in Austria, part 2: Geological classes as categorical external drift for spatial modelling of the Radon potential

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 81-97

  Bossew, Peter ^a   Dubois, Grégoire ^a   Tollefsen, Tore ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Geology; Geostatistics; Indoor radon; Mapping; Radon potential

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; MEASUREMENT THEORY; RADON;

GEOSTATISTICS; INDOOR RADONS; RADON POTENTIAL;

GEOLOGY;

RADON;

GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GEOSTATISTICS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODELING; RADON; STOCHASTICITY;

AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MODEL; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; AUSTRIA; GEOLOGY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADON; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 38749099114     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2007.06.013     Document Type: Article

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