Gstat: A program for geostatistical modelling, prediction and simulation

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 17-31

  Pebesma, Edzer J ^a   Wesseling, Cees G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cokriging; Conditional simulation; Generalized least squares; Geostatistics; GIS; Kriging; Universal kriging; Variogram modelling

Indexed keywords

GEOSTATISTICS; KRIGING;

EID: 0031903765     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-3004(97)00082-4     Document Type: Article

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