Geostatistics for Environmental Scientists (eBook)

Richard Webster, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden Dr Webster is the Senior Research Fellow at Rothamsted Research. Margaret A. Oliver, Visiting Professor, Department of Soil Science, University of Reading Professor Oliver has taught geostatistics, applied statistics, multivariate analysis and pedology to undergraduates and postgraduates. She also established a short geostatistics course while at the University of Birmingham, which has now been taught in several countries (e.g. Sweden, USA and Mexico). She is the author of over 70 papers and two co-authored books.

Preface

1 Introduction

2 Basic Statistics

3 Prediction and Interpolation

4 Characterizing Spatial Processes: The Covariance and
Variogram

5 Modelling the Variogram

6 Reliability of the Experimental Variogram and Nested
Sampling

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

"This is certainly an invaluable text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of spatial variation and environmental research." (International Journal of Environmental and Analytical Chemistry, August 2008)