Dear Steven, A new term such as microgeostatistics is necessary only, when there is something (mathematically) special with it.
Special features might be: - The measurement locations might have a relevant error. - It is no longer possible to measure a point or block, but you get weighted means or maximum measurements in of a little area (e.g. of the size of a measurement needle) - Stationarity might not be given any longer, and might not be necessary since we get the same covariance structure for a large set of individual data sets (you don't have many earths but many microorganisms and many experimenting bowls) - The location support might be the threedimensional mannifold-surface of e.g. a hair and not the in first order flat earth - interpolation might not be the final goal, but an intermediate one leading to the more complex question of local influences. What does the list think is special about geostatistics applied to microscale problems? Best regards, Gerald >I'm working in > microbial ecology and am interested in finding information about spatial > analysis or interpolation at extremely small scales (millimeters, microns, > etc.)., especially as related to survival and fitness of microorganisms. > I've coined the term, "microgeostatistics" to describe this subject. I > could be wrong, but it seems like there is comparatively little information > on this general area.Any suggestions are > greatly appreciated! >Steven Rogers > -- ------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. K. Gerald v.d. Boogaart Professor als Juniorprofessor für Statistik http://www.math-inf.uni-greifswald.de/statistik/ office: Franz-Mehring-Str. 48, 1.Etage rechts e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 00+49 (0)3834/86-4621 fax: 00+49 (0)89-1488-293932 (Faxmail) fax: 00+49 (0)3834/86-4615 (Institut) paper-mail: Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald Institut für Mathematik und Informatik Jahnstr. 15a 17487 Greifswald Germany -------------------------------------------------- -- * 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