Sampling and Kriging spatial means: Efficiency and conditions

Sensors

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 5224-5240

  Wang, Jin Feng ^a   Li, Lian Fa ^a   Christakos, George ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GIS; Mean Kriging; Random field; Spatial dependence

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; COMPARATIVE EFFICIENCIES; ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES; KRIGING; RANDOM FIELDS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPATIAL DEPENDENCE; STATISTICAL INFERENCE;

EFFICIENCY; ESTIMATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERPOLATION;

IMPORTANCE SAMPLING;

EID: 77649208193     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s90705224     Document Type: Article

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