This study estimated hepatitis A risk areas in a region of Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. A cross-sectional study consisting of a hepatitis A serological survey and a household survey were conducted in 19 census tracts. Of these, 11 tracts were selected and 1,298 children from one to ten years of age were included in the study. Geostatistical techniques allowed modeling the spat...

the aim of this study is to determine the area affected by dust storms in different wind speeds using satelliteimages. in the first step, windy conditions of the sistan plain were analyzed using wind statistics data. next, fivestormy days of zabol city, indicating different wind speeds and horizontal visibilities during those storms, wereselected. then, high temporal resolution modis data was u...

This paper analyzes the validity of temperature maps obtained by means of single and mixed interpolation methods. In this context, several interpolation methods are used for the temperature mapping: inverse distance square (IDS), ordinary kriging (OK) and co-kriging (CK) and mixed methods (combined global, local and geostatistical methods). And the validity of the maps is checked through the cr...

Understanding spatial variation of potentially toxic trace elements (PTEs) in soil is necessary to identify the proper measures for preventing soil contamination at both operating and abandoned mining areas. Many studies have been conducted worldwide to explore the spatial variation of PTEs and to create soil contamination maps using geostatistical methods. However, they generally depend only o...

This study compares three interpolation methods to create continuous surfaces that describe temperature trends in Bangladesh between years 1948 and 2007. The reviewed techniques include Spline, Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW) and Kriging. A statistical assessment based on univariate statistics of the resulting continuous surfaces indicates that there is little difference in the predictive powe...

The historical centre of Rome is characterized by the presence of high thickness of anthropic cover with scarce geotechnical characteristics. This anthropic backfill could induce damages in urban areas, i.e. mainly differential settlements and seismic amplifications. About 1400 measurements from boreholes stored in the UrbiSIT database have been used to re-construct the anthropic backfill botto...

The accuracy of the Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) interpolated using four different methods was compared in two small watersheds in the Ecuadorian Andes. The interpolation methods compared were Inverse Distance Weighted, radial basis functions, ordinary Kriging, and TOPOGRID. A qualitative comparison was made between the stream network modeled in Arc Hydro and the digitized stream network. Mo...

Kriging is an advanced geostatistical procedure that generates an estimated surface or 3D model from a scattered set of points. This method can be used for estimating resources using a grid of sampled boreholes. However, conventional ordinary kriging (OK) is unable to take locally varying anisotropy (LVA) into account. A numerical approach has been presented that generates an LVA field by calcu...