Groundwater arsenic contamination risk prediction using GIS and classification tree method

Engineering Geology

Volumn 156, Issue , 2013, Pages 37-45

  Hossain, Md Moqbul ^a   Piantanakulchai, Mongkut ^a  

^a THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Arsenic contamination; Classification tree; GIS; Groundwater; Risk map

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC CONTAMINATION; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION TREE METHOD; CLASSIFICATION TREES; DATA MINING TECHNOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; GROUNDWATER ARSENIC CONTAMINATION; RISK MAPS;

ARSENIC; CONTAMINATION; DATA MINING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEAVY METALS; MAPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOILS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; ARSENIC; CLASSIFICATION; GIS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEALTH RISK; HEAVY METAL; MAPPING METHOD; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 84875539524     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2013.01.007     Document Type: Article

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