Environmental Data Analysis: Methods and Applications

Most environmental data involve a large degree of complexity and uncertainty. Environmental Data Analysis is created to provide modern quantitative tools and techniques designed specifically to meet the needs of environmental sciences and related fields. This book has an impressive coverage of the scope. Main techniques described in this book are models for linear and nonlinear environmental systems, statistical & numerical methods, data envelopment analysis, risk assessments and life cycle assessments. These state-of-the-art techniques have attracted significant attention over the past decades in environmental monitoring, modeling and decision making. Environmental Data Analysis explains carefully various data analysis procedures and techniques in a clear, concise, and straightforward language and is written in a self-contained way that is accessible to researchers and advanced students in science and engineering. This is an excellent reference for scientists and engineers who wish to analyze, interpret and model data from various sources, and is also an ideal graduate-level textbook for courses in environmental sciences and related fields.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Time Series Analysis
Chapter 2 Chaos And Dynamical Systems
Chapter 3 Approximation
Chapter 4 Interpolation
Chapter 5 Statistical Methods
Chapter 6 Numerical Methods
Chapter 7 Optimization
Chapter 8 Data Envelopment Analysis
Chapter 9 Risk Assessments
Chapter 10 Life Cycle Assessments