An experimental comparison of ordinary and universal kriging and inverse distance weighting

Mathematical Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 375-390

  Zimmerman, Dale ^a   Pavlik, Claire ^a   Ruggles, Amy ^a   Armstrong, Marc P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; Spatial interpolation; Spatial pattern; Surface fitting algorithms

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; GEOSTATISTICS; INVERSE ANALYSIS; KRIGING;

EID: 0032985338     PISSN: 08828121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007586507433     Document Type: Article

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