Since the pioneering work of Shannon in the late 1940's on the
development of the theory of entropy and the landmark contributions
of Jaynes a decade later leading to the development of the
principle of maximum entropy (POME), the concept of entropy has
been increasingly applied in a wide spectrum of areas, including
chemistry, electronics and communications engineering, data
acquisition and storage and retreival, data monitoring network
design, ecology, economics, environmental engineering, earth
sciences, fluid mechanics, genetics, geology, geomorphology,
geophysics, geotechnical engineering, hydraulics, hydrology, image
processing, management sciences, operations research, pattern
recognition and identification, photogrammetry, psychology, physics
and quantum mechanics, reliability analysis, reservoir engineering,
statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, topology, transportation
engineering, turbulence modeling, and so on. New areas finding
application of entropy have since continued to unfold. The entropy
concept is indeed versatile and its applicability widespread. In
the area of hydrology and water resources, a range of applications
of entropy have been reported during the past three decades or so.
This book focuses on parameter estimation using entropy for a
number of distributions frequently used in hydrology. In the
entropy-based parameter estimation the distribution parameters are
expressed in terms of the given information, called constraints.
Thus, the method lends itself to a physical interpretation of the
parameters. Because the information to be specified usually
constitutes sufficient statistics for the distribution under
consideration, the entropy method provides a quantitative way to
express the information contained in the distribution.
General
Imprint: |
Springer
|
Country of origin: |
Netherlands |
Series: |
Water Science and Technology Library, 30 |
Release date: |
October 1998 |
First published: |
October 1998 |
Authors: |
V.P. Singh
|
Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
368 |
Edition: |
1998 ed. |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-7923-5224-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Earth & environment >
Earth sciences >
The hydrosphere >
Hydrology (freshwater)
|
LSN: |
0-7923-5224-6 |
Barcode: |
9780792352242 |
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