Assessment of outdoor radiofrequency electromagnetic field exposure through hotspot localization using kriging-based sequential sampling

Environmental Research

Volumn 126, Issue , 2013, Pages 184-191

  Aerts, Sam ^a   Deschrijver, Dirk ^a   Verloock, Leen ^a   Dhaene, Tom ^a   Martens, Luc ^a   Joseph, Wout ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Exposure model; Hotspots; Human exposure; Radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF EMF); Surrogate modeling

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HOT SPOT; KRIGING; PREDICTION; SAMPLING;

ARTICLE; BELGIUM; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; KRIGING; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; SAMPLING;

BELGIUM; EAST FLANDERS; GHENT;

EXPOSURE MODEL; HOTSPOTS; HUMAN EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS (RF-EMF); SURROGATE MODELING;

CITIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84885851265     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2013.05.005     Document Type: Article

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