road transport is a ubiquitous source of lead contamination in the soil near highways with direct and indirect impacts on human health. accumulation of traffic-induced lead in the soils depends on gasoline lead content, traffic volume, as well as meteorological conditions. to evaluate the effect of traffic on soil lead concentration, 113 samples from the topsoil (0-15 cm) were collected in a re...

Until now, Universal Kriging has not been used for the mapping of geological data in Croatia. However, it is one of the most frequently used methods of Kriging, probably the most adequate in cases when the input data is marked by a common trend. That exact feature is often an attribute of deep geological data, and thereby that of structural maps. Mapped surfaces in a row of examples have a stru...

In spatial data modelling and analysis there are a variety of techniques to perform prediction. The goal of these techniques is to take spatially located data and to establish estimates of data values at unknown locations. Of these techniques, the attractive aspects of kriging are often overshadowed by the slow speed of the calculation. Unfortunately the calculations necessary to perform krigin...

and Applied Analysis 3 2.2. Universal Kriging for Computing Water Depth in Any Position The basic premise of Kriging interpolation is that every unknown point can be estimated by the weighted sum of the known points: Z∗ 0 n ∑ i 1 λi Zi, 2.1 where Z∗ 0 represents the unknown point, Zi refers to each known point, and λ 0 i is the weight given to it. The Kriging algorithm body is involved in the a...