Using spatial statistics to identify the uranium hotspot in groundwater in the mid-eastern Gangetic plain, India

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 77, Issue 19, 2018, Pages

  Kumar, Deepak ^a   Singh, Anshuman ^a   Jha, Rishi Kumar ^a   Sahoo, Sunil Kumar ^b   Jha, Vivekanand ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY PATNA   (India)

^b BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Getis Ord Gi* statistic; Groundwater; Hot spot analysis; LED fluorimeter; Uranium

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; GROUNDWATER; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; POTABLE WATER; RANDOM PROCESSES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AVERAGE VALUES; FLUORIMETRIC TECHNIQUE; HOT SPOT; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE (LED); LOW CONCENTRATIONS; SPATIAL STATISTICS; URANIUM CONCENTRATION; Z-SCORES;

URANIUM;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DECISION MAKING; DETECTION METHOD; DRINKING WATER; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; GEOSTATISTICS; GROUNDWATER; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INSTRUMENTATION; RADIONUCLIDE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URANINITE; URANIUM; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TREATMENT;

BIHAR; GANGETIC PLAIN; INDIA;

EID: 85054486935     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-018-7889-1     Document Type: Article

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