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Optimal redesign of groundwater quality monitoring networks: a case study

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Assessment and redesign of water quality monitoring networks is an important task in water quality management. This paper presents a new methodology for optimal redesign of groundwater quality monitoring networks. The measure of transinformation in discrete entropy theory and the transinformation–distance (T–D) curves are used to quantify the efficiency of sampling locations and sampling frequencies in a monitoring network. The existing uncertainties in the T–D curves are taken in to account using the fuzzy set theory. The C-means clustering method is also used to classify the study area to some homogenous zones. The fuzzy T–D curve of the zones is then used in a multi-objective hybrid genetic algorithm-based optimization model. The proposed methodology is utilized for optimal redesign of monitoring network of the Tehran aquifer in the Tehran metropolitan area, Iran.

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Masoumi, F., Kerachian, R. Optimal redesign of groundwater quality monitoring networks: a case study. Environ Monit Assess 161, 247–257 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-008-0742-3

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