Interpolation methods for geochemical maps: A comparative study using arsenic data from European steam waters

Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 41-48

  Lima, A ^a   Plant, J A ^b   De Vivo, B ^a   Tarvainen, T ^c   Albanese, S ^a   Cicchella, D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fractal filtering; Geochemical map; Kriging; Multifractal interpolation

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; FRACTALS; GEOCHEMISTRY; INFORMATION FILTERING; INTERPOLATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS;

BACKGROUND VALUE; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES; GEOCHEMICAL ATLAS; INTERPOLATION METHOD; INVERSE DISTANCE WEIGHTED; KRIGING; MULTI FRACTALS;

MAPS;

ARSENIC; DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; INVERSE ANALYSIS; KRIGING; MAPPING; WATER CHEMISTRY;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 39549104679     PISSN: 14677873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1467-7873/07-146     Document Type: Conference Paper

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