Separable approximations of space-time covariance matrices

Environmetrics

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 681-695

  Genton, Marc G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Block Toeplitz matrix; Kriging; Kronecker product; Nonstationarity; Positive definiteness; Separable covariance; Space time stochastic process; Stationarity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; KRIGING; MODELING; WIND VELOCITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 35348967788     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.854     Document Type: Conference Paper

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