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Entropy-based design considerations for water quality monitoring networks

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Integrated Technologies for Environmental Monitoring and Information Production

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Assessment of water quality monitoring networks requires potential methods to delineate the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of current monitoring programs. To this end, the concept of entropy has been considered as a promising method in previous studies as it quantitatively measures the information produced by a network. The paper presented discusses an entropy-based approach for the assessment of combined spatial/temporal frequencies of monitoring networks. The results are demonstrated in the case of water quality data observed along the Mississippi River in Louisiana.

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    Nilgun B. Harmancioglu , Sevinc D. Ozkul  & Okan Fistikoglu ,  & 

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Harmancioglu, N.B., Ozkul, S.D. (2003). Entropy-based design considerations for water quality monitoring networks. In: Harmancioglu, N.B., Ozkul, S.D., Fistikoglu, O., Geerders, P. (eds) Integrated Technologies for Environmental Monitoring and Information Production. Nato Science Series, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0231-8_10

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