An R package for spatial coverage sampling and random sampling from compact geographical strata by k-means

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1261-1267

  Walvoort, D J J ^a   Brus, D J ^a   de Gruijter, J J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Design based; Kriging; Model based; Stratified random sampling

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL FIELDS; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE STATIONS; COMMONLY USED; COMPUTING TIME; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; K-MEANS; K-MEANS ALGORITHM; K-MEANS CLUSTERING; KRIGING; MODEL-BASED; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; RANDOM SAMPLING; SAMPLE LOCATION; SHORTEST DISTANCE; SPATIAL COVERAGE; STRATIFIED RANDOM SAMPLING; STUDY AREAS;

INTERPOLATION; SOILS;

SOIL TESTING;

ALGORITHM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DESIGN METHOD; KRIGING; MAPPING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARALLEL COMPUTING; SAMPLING BIAS; SOFTWARE; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL TEST;

AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

EID: 77956741729     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2010.04.005     Document Type: Article

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