A water quality monitoring network design using fuzzy theory and multiple criteria analysis

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 186, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 6459-6469

  Chang, Chia Ling ^a   Lin, You Tze ^a  

^a FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fuzzy theory; Monitoring network; Multiple criteria analysis; Water quality

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; DESIGN; MONITORING; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCES;

DENSITY OF WATER; FUZZY THEORY; LANDSLIDE AREAS; MONITORING NETWORK; MULTIPLE CRITERIA ANALYSIS; NON-POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; RESOURCE DOMAINS; WATER QUALITY MONITORING;

QUALITY CONTROL;

FUZZY MATHEMATICS; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; NETWORK DESIGN; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTION MONITORING; WATER QUALITY;

AMOUNT OF NON POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; ARTICLE; DENSITY OF WATER QUALITY MONITORING STATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FUZZY SYSTEM; GREEN COVER RATIO; LANDSLIDE AREA RATIO; MULTIPLE CRITERIA ANALYSIS; PERCENTAGE OF BUILT UP AREA; PERCENTAGE OF FARMLAND AREA; RATIO OF OVERUTILIZATION N HILLSIDE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TAIWAN; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; FUZZY LOGIC; PROCEDURES; RIVER; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

TAIWAN;

WATER POLLUTANT;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUZZY LOGIC; RIVERS; TAIWAN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84921668053     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-014-3867-6     Document Type: Article

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