The effect of short-range spatial variability on soil sampling uncertainty

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1582-1587

  Van der Perk, Marcel ^a   de Zorzi, Paolo ^b   Barbizzi, Sabrina ^b   Belli, Maria ^b   Fajgelj, Ales ^c   Sansone, Umberto ^c   Jeran, Zvonka ^d   Jaćimović, Radojko ^d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Agenzia per la Protezione dell'Ambiente e per i Servizi Tecnici APAT   (Italy)

^c INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^d JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; Nugget; Sample support; Sampling error; Soil sampling; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION;

GEOSTATISTICS; NUGGET; SAMPLE SUPPORT; SAMPLING ERROR; SOIL SAMPLING; UNCERTAINTY;

SOIL POLLUTION;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SOIL POLLUTION; STANDARD;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ITALY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 50949113443     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2007.09.018     Document Type: Article

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