Entropy-Based Assessment of Water Quality Monitoring Networks
Publication: Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
Volume 5, Issue 1
Abstract
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 a promising method in previous studies as it quantitatively measures the information produced by a network. This paper revises the entropy methodology developed in an earlier study and introduces a new 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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Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
Volume 5 • Issue 1 • January 2000
Pages: 90 - 100
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Received: Feb 5, 1996
Published online: Jan 1, 2000
Published in print: Jan 2000
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Benefit cost ratios
- Business management
- Case studies
- Engineering fundamentals
- Engineering mechanics
- Entropy methods
- Environmental engineering
- Financial management
- Hydrologic data
- Hydrologic engineering
- Hydrology
- Management methods
- Methodology (by type)
- Practice and Profession
- Quality control
- Research methods (by type)
- River engineering
- Rivers and streams
- Thermodynamics
- Water and water resources
- Water conservation
- Water management
- Water policy
- Water quality
- Water treatment
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