Assessment of geostatistical methods for spatial analysis of SPI and EDI drought indices

World Applied Sciences Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 474-482

  Younes, Khosravi ^a   Ali, Mozafari Gholam ^a   Esmaeil, Abbas ^b   Fatemeh, Tavakoli ^b  

^a YAZD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center   (Iran)

Author keywords

Boushehr; Geostatistic; IDW; Interpolation; Iran; Kriging; SPI; TPSS

Indexed keywords

EID: 81555222527     PISSN: 18184952     EISSN: 19916426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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