Web-based tool for expert elicitation of the variogram

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 51, Issue , 2013, Pages 390-399

  Truong, Phuong N ^a   Heuvelink, Gerard B M ^a   Gosling, John Paul ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Expert knowledge; Geostatistics; Spatial variability; Subjective prior information

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONSTRAINT; DATABASE MANAGEMENT; EXPERT ELICITATION; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; GEO-STATISTICS; GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE; LOG-NORMAL; MULTIVARIATE NORMAL; PRIOR INFORMATION; REGIONALIZED VARIABLES; SOURCE CODES; SPATIAL SAMPLING; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STATISTICAL COMPUTATIONS; TEST CASE; VARIOGRAMS; WEB INTERFACE; WEB-BASED TOOLS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOSTATISTICS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL VARIATION; VARIOGRAM;

EID: 84870380792     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2012.08.010     Document Type: Article

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