Use of local Moran's I and GIS to identify pollution hotspots of Pb in urban soils of Galway, Ireland

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 398, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 212-221

  Zhang, Chaosheng ^a   Luo, Lin ^b   Xu, Weilin ^b   Ledwith, Valerie ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hotspot; Local Moran's I; Spatial cluster; Spatial outlier; Urban soil

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; LEAD; SAMPLING; SOIL POLLUTION; TRACE ANALYSIS;

HOTSPOT; LOCAL MORAN'S I; SPATIAL CLUSTERS; SPATIAL OUTLIERS; URBAN SOIL;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

LEAD;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; GIS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LEAD; MAPPING METHOD; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SOIL POLLUTION; URBAN AREA;

ARTICLE; GEOCHEMISTRY; IRELAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; URBAN AREA;

CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; IRELAND; LEAD; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

CONNACHT; COUNTY GALWAY; EURASIA; EUROPE; GALWAY [COUNTY GALWAY]; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 43849106660     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.03.011     Document Type: Article

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