Variation of groundwater quality in seawater intrusion area using cluster and multivariate factor analysis

Proceedings - 2010 6th International Conference on Natural Computation, ICNC 2010

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages 3021-3025

  Huang, Yi Chu ^a   Yang, Chou Ping ^a   Lee, Yu Chun ^a   Tang, Ping Kuei ^a   Hsu, Wen Ming ^a   Wu, Tien Nien ^b  

^a NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b KUN SHAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Principal component analysis; Salinization; Seawater intrusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149339309     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICNC.2010.5582334     Document Type: Conference Paper

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