How useful are databases in environmental and criminal forensics?

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 384, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 109-119

  Mckinley, Jennifer ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE; MAPPING; PROVENANCE; SOIL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRIME; DIGITAL MAPPING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FORENSIC SCIENCE; KNOWLEDGE; LAND MANAGEMENT; MAPPING METHOD; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84888037814     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP384.9     Document Type: Article

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