TY - MANSCPT AU - Webster, Richard AU - Oliver, Margaret A. TI - Geostatistics for environmental scientists T2 - Statistics for Social Sciences SN - 9780470517260 U1 - 519.5 PY - 2007/// CY - England PB - Editorial Wiley KW - Reliability KW - Spectral KW - Variogram KW - Interpolation KW - Kriging KW - Cokriging N1 - --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 N2 - Geostatistics is essential for environmental scientists. Weather and climate vary from place to place, soil varies at every scale at which it is examined, and even man-made attributes – such as the distribution of pollution – vary. The techniques used in geostatistics are ideally suited to the needs of environmental scientists, who use them to make the best of sparse data for prediction, and top plan future surveys when resources are limited. Geostatistical technology has advanced much in the last few years and many of these developments are being incorporated into the practitioner’s repertoire. This second edition describes these techniques for environmental scientists. Topics such as stochastic simulation, sampling, data screening, spatial covariances, the variogram and its modeling, and spatial prediction by kriging are described in rich detail. At each stage the underlying theory is fully explained, and the rationale behind the choices given ER -