Reliability of sampling designs for spatial snow surveys

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1097-1110

  Kronholm, Kalle ^a   Birkeland, Karl W ^b  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b US Forest Service National Avalanche Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; Random fields; Simulation; Snow cover; Spatial prediction

Indexed keywords

GEOSTATISTICS; RANDOM FIELDS; SNOW COVER; SPATIAL PREDICTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY THEORY; SAMPLING; STATISTICS;

SNOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY THEORY; SAMPLING; SNOW; STATISTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOSTATISTICS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SNOW COVER; VARIOGRAM;

EID: 34447558103     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2006.10.004     Document Type: Article

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