Spatial interpolation of severely skewed data with several peak values by the approach integrating kriging and triangular irregular network interpolation

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1093-1103

  Wu, Chunfa ^a,b   Wu, Jiaping ^b   Luo, Yongming ^a   Zhang, Haibo ^a   Teng, Ying ^a   DeGloria, Stephen D ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Data transformation; High peak value; Skewed data; Spatial distribution; Triangular irregular network

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATED SITES; DATA SETS; DATA TRANSFORMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES; KRIGING; LOG-NORMAL; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; MEAN ERRORS; ORDINARY KRIGING; PEAK VALUES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SKEWED DATA; SOIL SAMPLE; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TRIANGULAR IRREGULAR NETWORKS; ZHEJIANG PROVINCE;

COPPER SMELTING; FORECASTING; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; METADATA; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS;

INTERPOLATION;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COPPER; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; KRIGING; SOIL TYPE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

CHINA; ZHEJIANG;

EID: 79958204710     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-010-0784-z     Document Type: Article

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