Optimization of a Coastal Environmental Monitoring Network Based on the Kriging Method: A Case Study of Quanzhou Bay, China

Table 5

Comparison of the coastal environmental monitoring network optimization with other studies.

Study area	The number of original sites	The number of optimized sites	The number of added sites	The number of deleted sites	The rate of the monitoring precision	Source
Yangtze River Estuary	42	59	21	4	16.1%	Shen and Wu, 2013 [23]
Yangtze River Estuary	70	55	5	20	It depends	Gao et al., 2015 [9]
Jiaozhou Bay	28	31	6	3	8.3%	Yi et al., 2014 [40]
Xiangshan Bay	50	38	0	12	0	Cao et al., 2014 [41]
Quanzhou Bay	15	24	12	3	32.9%	This study