Understanding the Quality of Chemical Data from the Urban Environment-Part 1: Quality Control Procedures

Mapping the Chemical Environment of Urban Areas

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 61-76

  Johnson, Christopher C ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data storage; Geochemical Baseline Survey of the Environment (G BASE); Global positioning system (GPS); Operational aspects of quality control; Preparing for quality control; Quality control (QC); Secondary reference materials (SRMs); The British Geological Survey (BGS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649971883     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470670071.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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