Abstract In Wrocław over the past 20 years, recorded increase in average ambient air temperature is approx. 0.5 °C. addition, urbanisation has created a phenomenon called Urban Heat Island (UHI). The combined effect of UHI and climate change can influence groundwater by penetrating underground. elevated temperatures urban areas Subsurface (SSUHI). This study focuses on spatial distribution shal...

In hydrogeology, most studies using interpolators seek to estimate water table elevations, contaminant concentrations and aquifer vulnerability. The primary goal of this research was evaluate which geospatial interpolator best suits six distinct hydrogeological parameters nine consistency tests. Water wells were selected on a portion the Serra Geral Fractured Aquifer System in Southern Brazil. ...

Cokriging is a flexible tool for constructing surrogate models on the outputs of computer models. It can readily incorporate gradient information, in which form it is named gradient-enhanced Kriging (GEK), and promises accurate surrogate models in >10 dimensions with a moderate number of sample locations for sufficiently smooth responses. However, GEK suffers from several problems: poor robustn...

This study presents a combined application of an EM38DD for assessing soil apparent electrical conductivity (ECa) and a dual-sensor vertical penetrometer Veris-3000 for measuring soil electrical conductivity (ECveris) and soil resistance to penetration (PR). The measurements were made at a 6 ha field cropped with forage maize under no-tillage after sowing and located in Northwestern Spain. The ...

This paper presents three multivariate geostatistical algorithms for incorporating a digital elevation model into the spatial prediction of rainfall: simple kriging with varying local means; kriging with an external drift; and colocated cokriging. The techniques are illustrated using annual and monthly rainfall observations measured at 36 climatic stations in a 5000 km region of Portugal. Cross...

Ground-based rainfall observations are the primary sources of precipitation data used in most developing countries. However, those observations are frequently damaged or incomplete, thus missing data is always a problem. This comparison study examines a number of spatial interpolation methods used to estimate missing monthly rainfall data in the northeast region of Thailand. The comparison was ...

Spatial statistical methods including Cokriging interpolation, Morans I analysis, and geographically weighted regression (GWR) were used for studying the spatial characteristics of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) accumulation in urban, suburban, and rural soils of Beijing. The concentrations of PAHs decreased spatially as the level of urbanization decreased. Generally, PAHs in soil showed...

The paper presents some contemporary approaches to the spatial environmental data analysis, processing and presentation. The main topics are concentrated on the decision–oriented problems of environmental and pollution spatial data mining and modelling: valorisation and representativity of data with the help of exploratory data analysis, topological, statistical and fractal measures of monitori...

[1] A novel data-driven artificial neural network (ANN) that quantitatively combines large numbers of multiple types of soft data is presented for performing stochastic simulation and/or spatial estimation. A counterpropagation ANN is extended with a radial basis function to estimate parameter fields that reproduce the spatial structure exhibited in autocorrelated parameters. Applications invol...