Spatial variation modelling of groundwater electrical conductivity using geostatistics and GIS

Modeling Earth Systems and Environment

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1-10

  Seyedmohammadi, Javad ^a   Esmaeelnejad, Leila ^b   Shabanpour, Mahmood ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUILAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

EC; Geostatistics; GPI; IDW; LPI; Ordinary kriging; RBF

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GEOSTATISTICS; GIS; GROUNDWATER; INTERPOLATION; KRIGING; MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL VARIATION;

GILAN; IRAN;

EID: 85086707444     PISSN: 23636203     EISSN: 23636211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40808-016-0226-3     Document Type: Article

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