Optimal Design of Groundwater Monitoring Network Using the Combined Election-Kriging Method

Mohadeseh Kavusi (), Abbas Khashei Siuki () and Mahdi Dastourani ()
Additional contact information
Mohadeseh Kavusi: University of Birjand
Abbas Khashei Siuki: University of Birjand
Mahdi Dastourani: University of Birjand

Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), 2020, vol. 34, issue 8, No 14, 2503-2516

Abstract: Abstract Groundwater monitoring requires a great deal of cost and time that optimizing the quantitative groundwater monitoring network with selecting the optimal number of sampling wells and determining their optimal location for reducing the cost and time of quantitative groundwater assessment are necessary. The data from 110 observation wells of Neyshabur plain in Iran range from the year 1986 to 2016 were studied. The combined Election-Kriging method was used to analyze these data, and the Pareto chart was plotted to determine the optimal number and location in two scenarios. The first scenario was to determine the optimal wells location among the existing wells and the second scenario was to determine the optimal wells location for monitoring groundwater levels throughout the plain. To limit the search space, the maximum and minimum number of monitoring network wells were selected 30 and 85 respectively. Based on the results, the selected method accurately provided the appropriate location of wells, so that in the first scenario, the RMSE values ​​for the number of wells were in the range of 0.71 to 2.34 m. which are acceptable. In the second scenario, the RMSE values ​​of between 1.04 and 2.89 m were obtained, which are appropriate values ​​according to the objective of the problem. Also, the distribution of the wells selected in the area is also uniform in most numbers according to the second scenario, which indicates the good accuracy of the method.

Keywords: Groundwater; Monitoring Network; Election Algorithm; Kriging; Neyshabur Plain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11269-020-02568-7 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:waterr:v:34:y:2020:i:8:d:10.1007_s11269-020-02568-7

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/11269

DOI: 10.1007/s11269-020-02568-7

Access Statistics for this article

Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA) is currently edited by G. Tsakiris

More articles in Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA) from Springer, European Water Resources Association (EWRA)
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().