Webster / Oliver Geostatistics for Environmental Scientists

2. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-470-51726-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 330 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Statistics in Practice

Geostatistics is essential for environmental scientists. Weatherand climate vary from place to place, soil varies at every scale atwhich it is examined, and even man-made attributes - such asthe distribution of pollution - vary. The techniques used ingeostatistics are ideally suited to the needs of environmentalscientists, who use them to make the best of sparse data forprediction, and top plan future surveys when resources are limited.
Geostatistical technology has advanced much in the last fewyears and many of these developments are being incorporated intothe practitioner's repertoire. This second edition describesthese techniques for environmental scientists. Topics such asstochastic simulation, sampling, data screening, spatialcovariances, the variogram and its modeling, and spatial predictionby kriging are described in rich detail. At each stage theunderlying theory is fully explained, and the rationale behind thechoices given, allowing the reader to appreciate the assumptionsand constraints involved.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Webster, Richard

Oliver, Margaret A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1 Introduction
2 Basic Statistics
3 Prediction and Interpolation
4 Characterizing Spatial Processes: The Covariance andVariogram
5 Modelling the Variogram
6 Reliability of the Experimental Variogram and NestedSampling
7 Spectral Analysis
8 Local Estimation or Prediction: Kriging
9 Kriging in the Presence of Trend and Factorial Kriging
10 Cross-Correlation, Coregionalization and Cokriging
11 Disjunctive Kriging
12 Stochastic Simulation (new file)
Appendix A
Appendix B
References
Index