Assessment of the water quality of a river catchment by chemometric expertise

Journal of Chemometrics

Volumn 24, Issue 11-12, 2010, Pages 694-702

  Tsakovski, Stefan ^a   Astel, Aleksander ^b   Simeonov, Vasil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Chemometrics; Hasse diagram technique; Self organizing maps; Sensitivity analysis; Water quality

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CONFORMAL MAPPING; DATA VISUALIZATION; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; WATER QUALITY;

CHEMOMETRIC TOOLS; CHEMOMETRICES; HASSE DIAGRAM TECHNIQUE; HASSE DIAGRAMS; MAP CLASSIFICATION; RIVER CATCHMENT; RIVER WATER QUALITY; SELF-ORGANIZING-MAPS; WATER QUALITY MONITORING; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 78650652602     PISSN: 08869383     EISSN: 1099128X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cem.1333     Document Type: Article

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