Characterising spatial and temporal variation in environmental
properties, generatingmapsfromsparse samples, and
quantifyinguncertaintiesin the maps, are key concerns across the
environmental sciences. The body of tools known as g- statistics offers
a powerful means of addressing these and related questions. This volume
presents recent research in methodological developments in geostatistics
and in a variety of speci?c environmental application areas including
soil science, climatology, pollution, health, wildlife mapping, ?sheries
and remote sensing, amongst others. This book contains selected
contributions from geoENV VII, the 7th Int- national Conference on
Geostatistics for Environmental Applications, held in Southampton, UK,
in September 2008. Like previous conferences in the series, the meeting
attracted a diversity of researchers from across Europe and further
a?eld. A total of 82 abstracts were submitted to the conference and from
these the organisation committee selected 46 papers for oral
presentation and 30 for poster presentation. The chapters contained in
the book represent the state-of-the-art in geostatistics for the
environmental sciences. The book includes 35 chapters arranged according
to their main focus, whether methodological, or in a particular
application. All of the chapters included were accepted after review by
members of the scienti?c c- mittee and each chapter was also subject to
checks by the editors.