Sampling optimization trade-offs for long-term monitoring of gamma dose rates

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5072 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2008, Pages 444-458

  Melles, S J ^a   Heuvelink, G B M ^a   Twenhofel C J W ^b   Stohlker U ^c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c BUNDESAMT FÜR STRAHLENSCHUTZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gamma radiation; Interpolation; Terrestrial radiation

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; INFRARED RADIATION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOMASKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

ANISOTROPIC; EU COUNTRIES; GAMMA DOSE RATES; GAMMA RADIATION; GUIDING; INTERPOLATION ERRORS; KRIGING; MONITORING STATIONS; NETWORK DESIGNS; OPTIMIZATION METHODS; REGRESSION RESIDUALS; SPATIAL OPTIMIZATIONS; STANDARD DEVIATIONS; TERRESTRIAL RADIATION; VARIOGRAM;

INTERPOLATION;

EID: 54349116501     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69839-5_33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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