geoENV III - Geostatistics for Environmental Applications

edited byPascal MonestiezInstitut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Avignon, FranceDenis AllardInstitut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Avignon, FranceRoland FroidevauxFSS Consultants SA, Geneva, Switzerland 

Foreword. Organizing Committee and List of Referees. Sponsors of the Conference. KeynotePapers. On the contribution of hydrogeology to advances in geostatistics;J.P. Chilès. Advances inmodeling and inference for environmental processes with nonstationary spatial covariance;P.D.Sampson, et al. Air Pollution / Climate. Ordinary and indictor kriging of monthly mean nitrogendioxide concentrations in the United Kingdom; P.M. Atkinson, C.D. Lloyd. Total air pollution andspace-time modelling; S. De Iaco, et al. Geostatistical interpolation of rainfall in mountainous areas;J. Deraisme, et al. Incorporating information from a digital elevation model for improving the arealestimation of rainfall; J.J. Gómez-Hernanández, et al. Robust predictions of rainfall in Navarre,Spain; A.F. Militino, et  al. Powering an Egyptian air quality information system with the BayesianMaximum Entropy space/time analysis toolbox: results from the Cairo baseline year study; M.Serre, et al. Environment. Space-time modelling of sand beach data: a geostatistical approach; B.Bourgine, et al. Identification of regional variability component by geostatistical analysis of streamsediments; R. Bruno, et al. Delineation of hazardous areas and additional sampling strategy inpresence of a location-specific threshold; P. Goovaerts, M. Van Meirvenne. Local interpolation of some chemical parameters after the removal of the Aznalcóllar mine spill sludge (south-westSpain); K. Vanderlinden, et al. Geostatistical evaluation of a monitoring strategy for water qualityassessment; C. Venard, et al. Application of data assimilation to three-dimensional hydrodynamics:the case of Odra lagoon; T. Wolf, et al. Health / Ecology. Geostatistical characterization of a pinetree productivity index; J.  Almeida, C. Santos. Impact of local pollution on fish abundance usinggeostatistical simulations; E. De Oliveira, et al. An application of geostatistical and GIS techniquesto indoor radon risk mapping; H.C. Zhu. Hydrology. Stochastic flow and transport simulations of athree-dimensional tracer test in moderately fractured plutonic rock; T. Chan, et al. A probabilisticand conditional approach for delineating the extent of a contamination plume within an aquifer; R.Froidevaux, et al. Geostatistical modeling of tracer tests in a single fracture. Calibration of transportparameters; J. Jodar, et al. Radial flow in a bounded randomly heterogeneous aquifer withrecharge; M. Riva, C. Tei. Uncertainty and sensitivity analyses for contaminant transport modelsbased on conditional indicator simulations; K.-J. Röhlig, B. Pöltl. Analysis of radionuclide migrationin rock fractures with heterogeneous matrix diffusion; S. Xu, et al. Methods. Probability fieldalgorithm for multivariate conditional simulation; E.F. Cassiraga, J.J. Gómez-Hernández. Analysingpositive-valued spatial data: the transformed Gaussian model; O.F. Christensen, et al. Kriging for cut-offs and other difficult problems; N. Cressi, G. Johannesson. Detecting regions of abruptchange: wombling procedure and statistical significance; J.F. Gleyze, et al. Average length of objects defined from binary realizations: effects of discretization and covariance parameters; C.Guardiola-Albert, J.J. Góomez-Hernández. A positive definite estimator of the non stationarycovariance of random fields; G. Guillot, et al. Variogram-derived measures of textural imageclassification; A. Jakomulska, K.C. Clarke. Which experimental variogram for the structuralinference: a methodological study; N. Jeannée, C.H. De Fouquet. Parameter uncertainty in spatialprediction: checking its importance by cross-validating the Wolfcamp and Rongelap data sets; A.Papritz, R.A. Moyeed. Direct sequential co-simulation: a new stochastic modelling for environmentalapplications; A. Soares. Change of support for environmental indicators; A. Stein. Bayesianconditioning of a random field to point measurements; E. Todini. Soil Science / Site Remediation.Factorial Kriging applied to the study of industrial contaminated soils; A.C. Batista, et al. Managingheterogeneous sampling data for geostatistical estimations of Benzo(A) pyrene concentrations in aformer gas works; H. Demougeot-Renard, C. De Fouquet. Geostatistical modeling of regionalizedgrain-size distributions using Min/Max autocorrelation factors; A.J. Desbarats. Fine scale soil texture

 

estimation using soil maps and profile descriptions; D. D'Or, P. Bogaert. A comparison of geostatistical simulation approaches for estimating the spatial uncertainty of soil texture; S. Druck Fuks, M. Voltz. Accounting for soft information in mapping soil contamination with TPH at an oilstorage site; M. Pereira, et al. Geostatistical analysis of PCB-contaminated sediment in acommercial dock, Swansea, UK; J. Reed, et al. Poster  Presentations. Comparison of geostatistical algorithms for completing groundwater monitoring well time series using data of anearby river; N. Barabás, P. Goovaerts. Data assimilation and geostatistics in ecological modeling;L. Bertino, et al. Spatial patterns of soil seed-bank related to some soil properties; S. Bocchi, et al.Geostatistical analysis for characterization of gully topographic features in olive tree areas; F.Carvajal, et al. Probabilistic assessment of groundwater contamination by nitrate; A. Castrignanò, et al. BME analysis of neural network residual data from the Chernobyl fallout: Bayesian and non-Bayesian approaches; G. Christakos, et al. Spatial analysis of soil physical properties in a UKupland subcatchment; L.K. Deeks, et al. Digital terrain modelling with geostatistics; J. Delgado, et al. The PLS regression in spatial statistical estimation; Y. Elkettani. Complex geometry of depositional facies within a coastal aquifer system: three-dimensional mapping of confining layersand hydrogeologic implications; J. Erskine, A.T. Fisher. Geostatistical approach for mapping SPTvalues at Lisbon; L. Fernandes, et al. Use of multivariate indices to characterise hydrogeochemicaldata. Application to the alluvial aquifer of Alto Guadalentín, SE Spain; R. Jiménez-Espinosa, et al.Evaluation of deleterious and toxic elements contents in Cu-Ag ores from Lubin-Glogow district, SWPoland; J. Mucha, et al. Spatial prediction of diameter distribution models in forestry; N. Nanos, G.Montero. Geostatistical analysis of stereoscopic pairs of satellite images; J. Sénégas, et al. GIS-based classification and indicator simulation of groundwater vulnerability characteristics. Case studyon Austrian-Czech border; M. Stibitz. Spatial variability of heavy metals in an agricultural watershedin Galicia, Spain, M. Ulloa Guitián, et al. Effect of soil properties on vegetation diversity in a createdhay meadow. A multivariate and spatial approach; S. Vaz, et al. Spatial analysis of patchyvegetation on semi-arid steppe; R. Webster, F.T. Maestre. Author Index