@incollection{iiasa13604, volume = {5}, month = {August}, series = {Proceedings of the 11th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control}, booktitle = {IFAC Symposia Series - Proceedings of a Triennial World Congress}, address = {Tallinn, USSR}, title = {Mathematical problems motivated by environmental monitoring}, publisher = {IFAC}, year = {1990}, pages = {529--534}, url = {http://www.ifac-control.org/about/symposia-conferences-and-workshops}, abstract = {This paper introduces three estimation problems for parabolic systems: the estimation of the intensity of sources on the basis of available measurements, the estimation of the state of a distributed process through given observations and an inverse problem of multiobjective optimization whose solution allows to estimate the largest input levels that ensure a guaranteed system output performance. The motivations to the problems come from environmental monitoring issues.}, author = {Kurzhanski, A. and Khapalov, A.} }