Rain gauge network design using coupled geostatistical and multivariate techniques

Scientia Iranica

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 259-269

  Shaghaghian, M R ^a   Abedini, M J ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Block kriging; Cluster analysis; Factor analysis; Network design.; Point kriging; Variance based approach

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DESIGN; FACTOR ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; RAIN;

BLOCK KRIGING; CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; INFORMATION CONTENTS; KRIGING; MULTIVARIATE TECHNIQUES; NETWORK DESIGN; RAIN GAUGE NETWORK DESIGNS; VARIANCE-BASED APPROACH;

RAIN GAGES;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA SET; FACTOR ANALYSIS; GEOSTATISTICS; KRIGING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RAINGAUGE; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

IRAN;

EID: 84888306560     PISSN: 10263098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scient.2012.11.014     Document Type: Article

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