Geostatistical approach for assessing soil volumes requiring remediation: Validation using lead-polluted soils underlying a former smelting works

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 38, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 5120-5126

  Demougeot Renard, Helene ^a,b   De Fouquet, Chantal ^a,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^c PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; REMEDIATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING;

ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS; GEOSTATISTICAL APPROACHES; SOIL VOLUMES; STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS;

SOILS;

LEAD;

CLEANUP; GEOSTATISTICS; LEAD; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL REMEDIATION;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; COST; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; SMELTER; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL TREATMENT; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOLOGY; LEAD; METALLURGY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 4944248351     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0351084     Document Type: Article

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