and Salas (1985) compared kriging with several other interpolation techniques, including inverse distance, for The choice of an optimal interpolation technique for estimating annual precipitation distributions and found kriging to soil properties at unsampled locations is an important issue in sitebe superior to inverse distance weighting. Warrick et specific management. The objective of this s...

Patterns of spatial heterogeneity in forests and other fire-prone ecosystems are increasingly recognized as critical for predicting fire behavior subsequent effects. Given the difficulty sampling continuous patterns across scales, statistical approaches common to scale from plot landscapes. This study compared performance four interpolation methods (SIM) mapping fine-scale fuel loads: classific...

In this study, two techniques for spatio-temporal (ST) kriging of soil water content are compared. The first technique, spatio-temporal ordinary kriging, is the simplest of the two, and uses only information about soil water content. The second technique, spatio-temporal kriging with external drift, uses also the relationship between soil water content and net-precipitation to aid the interpola...

Diagnosis of soil salinity and characterizing its spatial variability both vertically and horizontally are needed to establish control measures in irrigated agriculture. In this regard, it is essential that salinity development in varying soil depths be known temporally and spatially. Apparent soil electrical conductivity, measured by electromagnetic induction instruments, has been widely used ...

Spatial interpolation methods have been applied to many disciplines, the ordinary kriging interpolation being one of the methods most frequently used. However, kriging comprises a computational cost that scales as the cube of the number of data points. Therefore, one most pressing problems in geostatistical simulations is that of developing methods that can reduce the computational time. Weight...

With the continuous progress of human production and life, air quality has become the focus of attention. In this paper, Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong and Henan provinces were taken as the study area, where there are 58 air quality monitoring stations from which daily and monthly data are obtained. Firstly, the temporal characteristics of the air quality index (AQI) are explored. Th...

Spatio-temporal modelling is an area of increasing importance in which models and methods have often been developed to deal with specific applications. In this study, a spatio-temporal model was used to estimate daily rainfall data. Rainfall records from several weather stations, obtained from the Agritempo system for two climatic homogeneous zones, were used. Rainfall values obtained for two f...

Sublevel caving mining causes surface deformation in three distinct zones parallel to the extracted deposit. Most of published research is focused on extent caved and fracture zones. The largest, continuous zone and, thus, influence mine its surroundings not yet fully documented. This study aimed at assessing caused by a steep iron ore deposit Norway. For this purpose, an innovative combination...

Traditional geostatistical estimation techniques have been used predominantly by the mining industry for ore reserve estimation. Determination of mineral reserve has posed considerable challenge to mining engineers due to the geological complexities of ore body formation. Extensive research over the years has resulted in the development of several state-of-the-art methods for predictive spatial...