As basic data, the reliability of precipitation data makes a significant impact on many results of environmental applications. In order to obtain spatially distributed precipitation data, measured points are interpolated. There are many spatial interpolation schemes, but none of them can perform best in all cases. So criteria of precision evaluation are established. This study aims to find an o...

Precipitation is important factor affecting vegetation and controlling key ecological processes. In order to quantify spatial patterns of precipitation in Chongqing tobacco planting region, China, under ArcGIS platform, three multivariate geostatistical methods including cokriging, small grid and regression kriging, coupled with auxiliary topographic factors extracted from a 1:100000 DEM were a...

1. Abstract This paper presents a methodology that combines logistic regression with kriging for incorporating exhaustive secondary information into the mapping of the risk of occurrence of unexploded ordnance (UXO). Logistic regression, which is appropriate for binary data (indicators) analysis, is used to derive the trend component in simple kriging with varying local means (SKlm). The techni...

Environmental data is nearly always multivariate and often spatial–temporal. Thus to interpolate the data in space or to predict in space–time it is necessary to use a multivariate spatial–temporal method. Cokriging is easily extended to spatial–temporal data if there are valid space–time variograms or covariance functions. Various authors have proposed such models. In this paper, a generalized...

Population information is typically available for analysis in aggregate socioeconomic reporting zones, such as census blocks in the United States and enumeration districts in the United Kingdom. However, such data mask underlying individual population distributions and may be incompatible with other information sources (e.g. school districts, transportation analysis zones, metropolitan statisti...

In this paper, we compare the global accuracy of different strategies to build response surfaces by varying sampling methods and modeling techniques. The final application of the response surfaces being aerodynamic shape optimization, the test cases are issued from CFD simulations of aerodynamic coefficients. For comparisons, a robust strategy for model fit using a new efficient initialization ...

In hydrogeology, most studies using interpolators seek to estimate water table elevations, contaminant concentrations and aquifer vulnerability. The primary goal of this research was evaluate which geospatial interpolator best suits six distinct hydrogeological parameters nine consistency tests. Water wells were selected on a portion the Serra Geral Fractured Aquifer System in Southern Brazil. ...