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artificial intelligence methods in the environmental sciences
p how can environmental scientists and engineers use the increasing amount of available data to enhance our understanding of planet earth its systems and processes this book describes various potential approaches based on artificial intelligence ai techniques including neural networks decision trees genetic algorithms and fuzzy logic . p part i contains a series of tutorials describing the methods and the important considerations in applying them . in part ii many practical examples illustrate the power of these techniques on actual environmental problems . p international experts bring to life ways to apply ai to problems in the environmental sciences . while one culture entwines ideas with a thread another links them with a red line . thus a red thread ties the book together weaving a tapestry that pictures the natural data driven ai methods in the light of the more traditional modeling techniques and demonstrating the power of these data based methods .