A review of comparative studies of spatial interpolation methods in environmental sciences: Performance and impact factors

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 6, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 228-241

  Li, Jin ^a   Heap, Andrew D ^a  

^a Pmd CRC   (Australia)

Author keywords

Data variation; Geostatistics; Kriging; Sample density; Spatial interpolator

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOSTATISTICS; INTERPOLATION; KRIGING; LITERATURE REVIEW; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79955887596     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2010.12.003     Document Type: Review

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