Overview
- Takes readers through the essential steps in computing and modelling the variogram, which is often done in a black-box environment that does not lead to an understanding of the spatial variation
- Short computer code to guide users in GenStat as a learning medium
- Unique and succinct information
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Agriculture (BRIEFSAGRO)
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This brief will provide a bridge in succinct form between the geostatistics textbooks and the computer manuals for `push-button' practice. It is becoming increasingly important for practitioners, especially neophytes, to understand what underlies modern geostatistics and the currently available software so that they can choose sensibly and draw correct conclusions from their analysis and mapping. The brief will contain some theory, but only that needed for practitioners to understand the essential steps in analyses. It will guide readers sequentially through the stages of properly designed sampling, exploratory data analysis, variography (computing the variogram and modelling it), followed by ordinary kriging and finally mapping kriged estimates and their errors. There will be short section on trend and universal kriging. Other types of kriging will be mentioned so that readers can delve further in the substantive literature to tackle more complex tasks.
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“This text provides a condensed introduction to the fundamental principles, albeit better suited to reader from a mathematical background … . its greatest value may be as a concise reference.” (Markus Eichhorn, Frontiers of Biogeography, Vol. 7 (3), 2015)
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Book Title: Basic Steps in Geostatistics: The Variogram and Kriging
Authors: Margaret A. Oliver, Richard Webster
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Agriculture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15865-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-15864-8Published: 08 April 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-15865-5Published: 30 March 2015
Series ISSN: 2211-808X
Series E-ISSN: 2211-8098
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 100
Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations
Topics: Agriculture, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Geophysics/Geodesy, Ecology, Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences