Explorative data analysis of heavy metal contaminated soil using multidimensional spatial regression |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Ute?SchnabelEmail author Olaf?Tietje |
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Institution: | (1) Natural and Social Science Interface, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Haldenbachstr. 44, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland |
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Abstract: | To obtain data on heavy metal contaminated soil requires laborious and time-consuming data sampling and analysis. Not only has the contamination to be measured, but also additional data characterizing the soil and the boundary conditions of the site, such as pH, land use, and soil fertility. For an integrative approach, combining the analysis of spatial distribution, and of factors influencing the contamination, and its treatment, the Mollifier interpolation was used, which is a non-parametric kernel density regression. The Mollifier was capable of including additional independent variables (beyond the spatial dimensions x and y) in the spatial interpolation and hence explored the combined influence of spatial and other variables, such as land use, on the heavy metal distribution. The Mollifier could also represent the interdependence between different heavy metal concentrations and additional site characteristics. Although the uncertainty measure supplied by the Mollifier at first seems somewhat unusual, it is a valuable feature and supplements the geostatistical uncertainty assessment. |
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Keywords: | Heavy metals Spatial data assessment Kernel density regression Geostatistics Switzerland Furttal Canton Zurich |
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