Inference of a hidden spatial tessellation from multivariate data: Application to the delineation of homogeneous regions in an agricultural field

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 407-430

  Guillot, Gilles ^a,b,e   Kan King Yu, Denis ^c   Michelin, Joël ^d   Huet, Philippe ^d  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d UMR 1402 ECOSYS   (France)

^e AgroParisTech   (France)

Author keywords

Bayesian modelling; Clustering of spatial data; Linear co regionalization; Multivariate geostatistics; Non stationarity; Point processes; Poisson Voronoi tessellation; Precision farming; Resistivity data; Soil types; Spatial mixture

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645657604     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2006.00544.x     Document Type: Review

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