Maximum entropy techniques in inverse and environmental problems

Abstract

In the first case we analyse the possibility of using entropy as a regularization operator in the solution of Fredholm integral equations. We discuss in detail the inversion of aerosol size distributions from ground measurements. In the second case we use maximum entropy techniques in statistics in order to study the behaviour of an area perturbed by pollution problems (thermoelectric plant) using the biological composition species as an indicator of environmental conditions. We show that statistics derived from entropy principles are very suitable to delineate homogeneous areas and transition areas which require careful monitoring. -from Authors