Optimal extension of the rain gauge monitoring network of the Apulian Regional Consortium for Crop Protection

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 145, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 375-386

  Barca, E ^a   Passarella, Giuseppe ^a   Uricchio, V ^a  

^a WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computational statistics; Geostatistics; GIS; Monitoring; Rain gauges; Simulated annealing

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; ANNEALING; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CROPS; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; GAGES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RAIN; RAIN GAGES;

COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS; GEOSTATISTICS; GIS; RAIN GAUGES; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

MONITORING;

RAIN;

DETECTION METHOD; GEOSTATISTICS; GIS; KRIGING; MONITORING SYSTEM; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; RAINGAUGE; SIMULATED ANNEALING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ITALY; KOLMOGOROV SMIRNOV TEST; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ITALY; PROBABILITY; RAIN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; PUGLIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 51749110721     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-007-0046-z     Document Type: Article

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