Estimating threshold-exceeding probability maps of environmental variables with Markov chain random fields

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1113-1126

  Li, Weidong ^a,b   Zhang, Chuanrong ^b   Dey, Dipak K ^b   Wang, Shanqin ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental evaluation; Geostatistics; Spatial uncertainty; Transiogram

Indexed keywords

CLAY LAYERS; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY ESTIMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EVALUATION; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; GEO-STATISTICS; GEOSTATISTICAL APPROACH; INDICATOR KRIGING; INDICATOR VALUES; MARKOV CHAIN; MARKOV CHAIN RANDOM FIELDS; NONLINEAR ESTIMATOR; PROBABILITY MAPS; SAMPLE DATA; SEQUENTIAL INDICATOR SIMULATIONS; SEQUENTIAL SIMULATION; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; SPATIAL UNCERTAINTY; SPATIAL VARIABLES; TRANSIOGRAM;

DECISION MAKING; ESTIMATION; INTERPOLATION; MARKOV PROCESSES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOSTATISTICS; INTERPOLATION; KRIGING; MAPPING METHOD; MARKOV CHAIN; PLANNING METHOD; PROBABILITY; THRESHOLD; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 78650075293     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: 14363259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-010-0389-9     Document Type: Article

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