A multigrid method for the estimation of geometric anisotropy in environmental data from sensor networks

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 320-330

  Spiliopoulos, I ^a   Hristopulos, D T ^a   Petrakis, M P ^a   Chorti, A ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clustered CHI; Clustering; Extreme values; Kriging; Non parametric; Segmentation; Spatial interpolation

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERED CHI; CLUSTERING; EXTREME VALUE; KRIGING; NON-PARAMETRIC; SEGMENTATION; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION;

ANISOTROPY; COVARIANCE MATRIX; DATA VISUALIZATION; DECISION MAKING; ESTIMATION; GEOMETRY; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOACTIVITY MEASUREMENT; SENSOR NETWORKS; VISUALIZATION;

INTERPOLATION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; KRIGING; SENSOR; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79952187888     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2010.06.007     Document Type: Article

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