Geostatistics for Environmental Applications Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications

Change of support: an inter-disciplinary challenge.- Combining categorical and continuous information using Bayesian Maximum Entropy.- Geostatistical prediction of spatial extremes and their extent.- Monitoring network optimisation using support vector machines.- Bayesian Kriging with lognormal data and uncertain variogram parameters.- Kriging of scale-invariant data: optimal parameterization of the autocovariance model.- Scaling Effects on Finite-Domain Fractional Brownian Motion.- The delineation of fishing times and locations for the Shark Bay scallop fishery.- A spatial extension of CART: application to classification of ecological data.- Using a Markov-type model to combine trawl and acoustic data in fish surveys.- Mapping unobserved factors on vine plant mortality.- Analysis and modelling of spatially and temporally varying phenological phases.- Detection of spatial clusters and outliers in cancer rates using geostatistical filters and spatial neutral models.- Geostatistical assessment of long term human exposure to air pollution.- Air quality models resulting from multi-source emissions.- Variogram estimation with noisy data in the space-time domain: application to air quality modelling.- Multiple-point geostatistics: a powerful tool to improve groundwater flow and transport predictions in multi-modal formations.- Simulation of radionuclide mass fluxes in a heterogeneous clay formation locally disturbed by excavation.- Modeling density-dependent flow using hydraulic conductivity distributions obtained by means of non-stationary indicator simulation.- Random field approach to seawater intrusion in heterogeneous coastal aquifers: unconditional simulations and statistical analysis.- Uncertainty estimation of well catchments: semianalytical post-processing.- Conditional moments of residence time of sorbent solutes under radial flow.- Impact of the choice of the variogram model on flow and travel time predictors in radial flows.- Strategies to determine dispersivities in heterogeneous aquifers.- Solving the groundwater inverse problem by successive flux estimation.- Inverse problem for highly heterogeneous porous media: the factorial geostatistical analysis in differential system method.- Inverse stochastic estimation of well capture zones with application to the Lauswiesen site (Tübingen, Germany).- “Soft” geostatistical analysis of radioactive soil contamination.- Modelling the spatial distribution of copper in the soils around a metal smelter in northwestern Switzerland.- Towards a real-time multi-phase sampling strategy optimization.- Spatio-temporal mapping of sea floor sediment pollution in the North Sea.- Merging Landsat TM and SPOT-P images with geostatistical stochastic simulation.- Characterising local spatial variation in land cover using geostatistical functions and the discrete wavelet transform.- Distinguishing features from outliers in automatic Kriging-based filtering of MBES data: a comparative study.- Forecasting volcanic eruptions using geostatistical methods.- Delineation of estuarine management units: Evaluation of an automatic procedure.- Estimating indicators of river quality by geostatistics.- Stochastic simulation of rainfall using a spacetime geostatistical algorithm.- Inferring the lateral subsurface correlation structure from georadar data: Methodological background and experimental evidence.