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Visual Sample Plan (VSP)

Description

The purpose of Visual Sample Plan (VSP) is to provide simple, defensible tools for defining an optimal, technically defensible sampling scheme for characterization. VSP is applicable for any two-dimensional sampling plan including surface soil, building surfaces, water bodies, or other similar applications. VSP is tailored to the environmental professional who values cost effectiveness, simplicity, accuracy, and defensible methods. This professional wants to solve real-world environmental contamination problems using state-of-the-art statistical methods, but does not have time to master new complex software tools. It is no simple matter to collect and analyze environmental data to reach conclusions that are statistically defensible while minimizing costs. VSP can help scientists and engineers solve these problems.

VSP development has been partially supported by

• the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Environment, Safety and Health, Corporate Performance Assessment, Quality Assurance Programs, EH-31
• the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Environmental Management,
• the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Offices of Environmental Information and Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
• the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD).