accurate analysis and interpolation of heavy metals, especially arsenic concentrationin ground watercan play a significant role in planning and continuous monitoring of water resources. the analysis may also prevent human health issues.the purpose of this paper was to evaluate newly published sugeno type fuzzy inference system as an interpolation method for estimating the amount of arsenic in k...

Sensitivity analysis of capital investments can be effectively carried out by employing a metamodel approach and experimental designs. Although polynomial regression metamodels are popular and straightforward, they do not consider spatial relationships among the data. Dual kriging is an estimation technique that allows the incorporation of spatial correlation into the interpolation or estimatio...

This paper discusses the estimation and plug-in kriging prediction of a non-stationary spatial process assuming a smoothly varying variance function with an additive independent measurement error. A difference-based kernel smoothing estimator of the variance function and a modified likelihood estimator of the measurement error variance are used for parameter estimation. Asymptotic properties of...

The purpose of this work is to compare the linear and non-linear kriging methods in the mineral resource estimation of the Qolqoleh gold deposit in Saqqez, NW Iran. Considering the fact that the gold distribution is positively skewed and has a significant difference with a normal curve, a geostatistical estimation is complicated in these cases. Linear kriging, as a resource estimation method, c...

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...

ABSTRACT Decision makers will in an emergency situation often be interested in predictions of harmful environmental variables relative to a certain threshold. We are therefore examining the robustness of different methods which are supposed to give unbiased estimates relative to such a threshold, both for point predictions and areal averages. We are also interested in exceedance probabilities. ...

Groundwater is one of earth’s most vital renewable and widely distributed resources as well as an important source of water supply worldwide. The increased exploitation of groundwater resources can decrease regional water quality as a whole. The estimation of sodium adsorption ratio (SAR) and chloride content, and also, Na, Ca and Mg concentration are much more timeconsuming and expensive than ...

Sodium is an integral part of water, and its excessive amount in drinking water causes high blood pressure and hypertension. In the present paper, spatial distribution of sodium concentration in drinking water is modeled and optimized sampling designs for selecting sampling locations is calculated for three divisions in Punjab, Pakistan. Universal kriging and Bayesian universal kriging are used...

The main efforts and applications up to now are focused on the spatial variability analysis within a field. The spatial variability of soil properties within a field was evaluated using geostatistical analysis and the interpolation methods for mapping soil properties were compared in this paper. This experimentation was conducted in a wheat field of the trail farm in Shunyi County, Beijing. The...