Mapping geogenic radon potential by regression kriging

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 544, Issue , 2016, Pages 883-891

  Pásztor, László ^a   Szabó, Katalin Zsuzsanna ^b   Szatmári, Gábor ^a   Laborczi, Annamária ^a   Horváth, Ákos ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Auxiliary environmental variables; Physical soil properties; Regression kriging; Soil gas radon; Spatial prediction

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; GEOLOGY; HEALTH RISKS; INTERPOLATION; LAND USE; LINEAR REGRESSION; MAPPING; RADON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL TESTING; SOILS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; URANIUM;

ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; PHYSICAL SOIL PROPERTIES; REGRESSION-KRIGING; SOIL GAS RADON; SPATIAL PREDICTION;

SOIL POLLUTION;

RADON 222; RADON; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGENIC SOURCE; KRIGING; MAPPING; MODELING; PREDICTION; RADON ISOTOPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL GAS; SOIL PROPERTY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGENIC RADON POTENTIAL MAPPING; GEOLOGY; HUNGARY; LAND USE; METEOROLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; REGRESSION KRIGING METHOD; SEDIMENTATION; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL PROPERTY; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER ANALYSIS; ANALYSIS; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; PROCEDURES; RADIATION MONITORING; SOIL POLLUTANT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

HUNGARY;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; HUNGARY; RADIATION MONITORING; RADON; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84954171461     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.11.175     Document Type: Article

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