AI-GEOSTATS: Re: Samples in a Block

2001-08-29 Thread Marcel Vallée
Hi, Mark, Donald Donald Myers final sentence opened a door for me: There is no definitive answer to the question since it depends on the question, i.e., what is the data to be used for? In this perspective, I would line to raise several issues. My background and experience is mainly that

AI-GEOSTATS: re: sampling

2001-08-29 Thread Jan-Willem van Groenigen
I agree with both Marcel and Don that the first question, before any sampling strategy can be chosen, should be what the data is going to be used for, i.e. what is the sampling objective. Of course, Marcel was talking from a mining perspective, I am talking from a soil science perspective. In

AI-GEOSTATS: random start in arc/info

2001-08-29 Thread Ramesh Krishnamurthy
dear all, hope you won't mind for asking very basic question. i musk confess that i am new to the field (not more than 6 months). in raster data, i am trying to calculate average for center cell based on the values in neighbouring cells (say 3 x 3 window). i could perform this by moving window

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: re: sampling

2001-08-29 Thread Isobel Clark
Hi folks Numerous apologies to anyone who downloaded Krigame over the last two days. The file got corrupted and isn't actually kriging!! New version now up. Sorry sorry sorry Isobel Clark PS: on Mark Burnett's sampling thing. In South African gold mining, they have 100 years of back sampling