Pattern recognition and other chemometrical techniques are important tools in interpreting environmental data. This volume presents authoritatively state-of-the-art applications of measuring and handling environmental data. The chapters are written by leading experts.

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Library Search Principles and Applications.- Empirical Pattern Recognition/Expert System Approach for Classification and Identification of Toxic Organic Compounds from Low Resolution Mass Spectra.- The Mixture Resolution Problem Applied to Airborne Particle Source Apportionment.- Analytical Profiling and Latent-Variable Analysis of Multivariate Data in Petroleum Geochemistry.- A Multivariate Approach to Quantitative Structure-Activity and Structure-Property Relationships.- Method Validation and Laboratory Evaluation.- Data Management in Relation to Statistical Processing and Quality Control.- The Management of Laboratory Information.- Automated Techniques for the Monitoring of Water Quality.