Optimal spatial sampling design for the estimation of the variogram based on a least squares approach

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1275-1289

  Bogaert, Patrick ^a   Russo, David ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; SAMPLING; VARIOGRAM;

EID: 0032901828     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998WR900078     Document Type: Article

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