The effect of short-range spatial variability on soil sampling uncertainty

Marcel Van der Perk; Paolo de Zorzi; Sabrina Barbizzi; Maria Belli; Ales Fajgelj; Umberto Sansone; Zvonka Jeran; Radojko Jaćimović

doi:10.1016/j.apradiso.2007.09.018

The effect of short-range spatial variability on soil sampling uncertainty

Marcel Van der Perk, Paolo de Zorzi, Sabrina Barbizzi, Maria Belli, Ales Fajgelj, Umberto Sansone, Zvonka Jeran, Radojko Jaćimović

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This paper aims to quantify the soil sampling uncertainty arising from the short-range spatial variability of elemental concentrations in the topsoils of agricultural, semi-natural, and contaminated environments. For the agricultural site, the relative standard sampling uncertainty ranges between 1% and 5.5%. For the semi-natural area, the sampling uncertainties are 2-4 times larger than in the agricultural area. The contaminated site exhibited significant short-range spatial variability in elemental composition, which resulted in sampling uncertainties of 20-30%. © 2008 IAEA.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1582-1587
Number of pages	6
Journal	Applied Radiation and Isotopes
Volume	66
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2007.09.018
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2008

Keywords

Geostatistics
Nugget
Sample support
Sampling error
Soil sampling
Uncertainty
agriculture
article
concentration (parameters)
priority journal
quantitative analysis
sampling
soil pollution
standard

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