Estimation of gradients from sparse data by universal kriging

Water Resources Research

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1-17

  Pardo Igúzquiza, Eulogio ^a   Chica Olmo, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Directional derivative; Estimation variance; Geostatistics; Hydraulic head; Unbiased estimator

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; EARTH SCIENCES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LINEAR SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

HYDRAULIC HEADS; SPARSE DATA; TRANSPORT EQUATIONS; UNIVERSAL KRIGING;

GROUNDWATER FLOW;

ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOSTATISTICS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC HEAD; KRIGING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 12544257574     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003081     Document Type: Article

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