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...

Method for reducing the number of wild animal monitors is proposed by means of Kriging. Through wild animal route of simulations with 128 by 128 cells, the required number of wild animal monitors is clarified. Then it is found that the number of wild animal monitors can be reduced based on Kriging by using variograms and semi-variograms among the neighboring monitors. Also, it is found that the...

A. 2003. Comparison of krig-ing with external drift and regression-kriging. A generic framework for spatial prediction of soil variables based on regression-kriging. In further text, theory behind kriging with external drift and regression-kriging and differences between them are explained in more detail. We focus mainly on practical issues, i.e. how to derive predictions and prediction uncerta...

Environment pollution is a major problem in developing countries these days. Air pollution in particularis a cause of many diseases.In the present study an attempt has been made to map the pollution areas of Agra and predict the pollution at unsampled location.For this thirty places of Agra are selected for collectingair samples.Geographic Information System (GIS) and Kriging (Ordinary Kriging)...

In Precision Viticulture, the increasing number of information sources calls for methods to combine them and to generate information for professionals. Each data is located on its own geographical support, and geostatistics are mostly used to produce estimates on a common grid. Estimated values have to be associated with confidence intervals; using kriging variance to compute them is generally ...

There are close connections between several seemingly different topics; Kriging; radial basis function (RBF) interpolations, spline interpolations and the solutions of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). Consequently, these techniques can produce families of identical interpolations. More interestingly, the connection with PDE solution methods allows the calculation of some Kriging interpola...

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...

The relationship between exposure to environmental chemicals during pregnancy and early childhood development is an important issue that has a spatial risk component. In this context, we have examined mental retardation and developmental delay (MRDD) outcome measures for children in a Medicaid population in South Carolina and sampled measures of soil chemistry (e.g. As, Hg, etc.) on a network o...

In the present paper, a Kriging-based metamodeling technique is used to minimize the risk of failure in a sheet metal forming process. The Krigingbased models are fitted to data that are obtained for larger experimental areas than the areas used in loworder polynomial regression metamodels. Therefore, computational time and memory requirement can be an obstacle for Kriging for data sets with ma...