Effective visualization for the spatiotemporal trend analysis of the water quality in the Nakdong River of Korea

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 281-292

  Lee, Hye Won ^a   Bhang, Kon Joon ^a   Park, Seok Soon ^a  

^a Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

LOcally WEighted Scatter plot Smoother; Seasonal Mann Kendall; Spatiotemporal trend table; Trend analysis; Visual trend graph; Water quality information system

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TREND ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION; WATER QUALITY;

NAKDONG RIVER; SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 77954757583     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2010.05.004     Document Type: Article

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