Assessment of the groundwater salinity monitoring network of the Tehran region: Application of the discrete entropy theory

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 765-771

  Masoumi, F ^a   Kerachian, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

C means clustering method; Discrete entropy; Genetic algorithms; Groundwater monitoring; Transinformation

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENTROPY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENETIC ALGORITHM; IRAN; SALINITY;

ENTROPY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; IRAN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SALINITY; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 53549087552     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2008.674     Document Type: Article

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