Book Title: Analysis and modelling of spatial environmental data

ISBN: 2940222029

Book Author(s): Mikhail Kanevski, Michel Maignan

Book Publisher: EPFL-Press

Date of Publication: 1 March 2004

Cost: 94 US$

Pages: 304

Url: http://ppur.epfl.ch/livres/2-940222-02-9.html

Description:

The book consists in a paper-text (analysis of network monitoring, geostatistical method and the most advanced effective application of Artificial Neural Networks for mapping) and in a CD-ROM (paper-text in pdf format, with coloured display of all maps and graphs, "Geostat Office" software for Ms-Windows and user's manual).

Table of contents:

Introduction to environmental data analysis and modelling - Exploratory spatial data analysis. Analysis of monitoring networks. Declustering - Spatial data analysis: deterministic interpolations - Introduction to Geostatistics. Variography - Geostatistical spatial predictions - Estimation of local probability density functions - Conditional stochastic simulations - Artificial neural networks and spatial data analysis - Support Vector Machines for environmental spatial data - Geographical Information Systems and spatial data analysis - Conclusions - Glossaries - References.