Mapping water table depth using geophysical and environmental variables

Ground Water

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 80-96

  Buchanan, S ^a   Triantafilis, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDES; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; LAND USE; POTASSIUM; RADIOMETRY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; URANIUM;

ANCILLARY DATUMS; DATA SETS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DATUMS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; INVERSE DISTANCE WEIGHTING; LAND MANAGEMENTS; MEASUREMENT POINTS; ORDINARY KRIGING; PREDICTION ACCURACIES; RADIOMETRIC DATUMS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF; SPATIAL VARIABILITIES; STEPWISE MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; TOTAL COUNTS; WATER TABLES;

AQUIFERS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; KRIGING; LAND MANAGEMENT; MORPHOMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; WATER DEPTH; WATER TABLE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW; WATER SUPPLY;

AUSTRALIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 58149235315     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2008.00490.x     Document Type: Article

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