title: Optimal sampling strategies for source identification in environmental episodes.
abstract: Optimal sequential sampling strategies to identify a source of contamination in a variety of stream network configurations are developed and described. The strategies are illustrated with applications to selected enforcement problems that occur in the field of stream water contamination. Additional discussion on the design of surveillance systems, limitations of present strategies, and the content of information received from sequential samples is also presented. Finally, a possible application of some of the sampling strategies developed in this paper to the case of a toxic contaminant release in a sewerage system is briefly explored.
authors.affiliation: Department of Geography, The University of Iowa, USA.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rajagopal