Variable density grid-based sampling designs for continuous spatial populations

Environmetrics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 167-195

  Stevens Jr , Don L ^a  

^a DYNAMAC CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

continuous populations; design based inference; environmental sampling; grid based sampling; spatial sampling designs

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLING; GRID SAMPLING; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SAMPLING; SAMPLING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0030613137     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-095X(199705)8:3<167::AID-ENV239>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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