I have had no courses in geostatistics what so ever but I'm trying to calculate the semivariance of a dataset on my own. Calculating everything from scratch.
But I have some basic questions conserning the calculations that have to be done. First of all, I have data that is stratified on one level but not so on another. a sample plot would look like this: x x x x x x x x x x x x x a few of these sample sites were randomly distributed in a grid pattern of 9x9 km with grid cells of 1 km, 5 sites per cell. so I have about +- 500 points sampled. (is this enough??) So goes my question, is semivariance a good idea? Given the fact that a sampling plot is 20x20m and the whole site 9x9km? Does it make sense to include all values or should I only consider the 1x1km grid cells as maximum. In the end, correlations between points in 1 site will be long lost if compared to the ones in the other plots. Any idea's on this. Anyway, if I go with calculating the semivariance for the whole 9x9km what should I do. I made a flowchart of what should be considered this is what I came up with. first, calculate the distances between the pairs of sample points, and the square of the differences between the attributes assigned to these points. If I have these points, because the site has no random distribution and in general there are not that many points that have the same distances you will have to reclass these distances and associated attributes into classes to have your lag distances. From what I have read this h distance may not be more then half the maximum distance between two points. This would leave me with lags, h, from the reclassed distances the squared difference of attribute values and a count of observations of lags per class (N). As far as I know this are all the necessary values needed to calculate the semivariance with following equation: gamma(h)=1/2N(h)*sum((z(x)-z(x+h))^2 Am I'm doing this right??? Any input on this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time, Koen Hufkens -- * To post a message to the list, send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * As a general service to the users, please remember to post a summary of any useful responses to your questions. * To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with no subject and "unsubscribe ai-geostats" followed by "end" on the next line in the message body. DO NOT SEND Subscribe/Unsubscribe requests to the list * Support to the list is provided at http://www.ai-geostats.org
