Inferences from fluctuations in the local variogram about the assumption of stationarity in the variance

Geoderma

Volumn 143, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 123-132

  Corstanje, R ^a,b   Grunwald, S ^a,b   Lark, R M ^a,b  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; Random processes; Soil; Spatial variation; Stationarity

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; DATA REDUCTION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SAMPLING; STATISTICS;

GEOSTATISTICSS; RANDOM FUNCTIONS; SOIL PROPERTIES; SPATIAL VARIATIONS;

SOILS;

GAUSSIAN METHOD; GEOSTATISTICS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; SOIL PROPERTY; SPATIAL VARIATION; VARIOGRAM;

EID: 38049090189     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2007.10.021     Document Type: Article

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