Re: [ai-geostats] Re: Software for Automatic Semivariogram Estimation

2006-02-28 Thread Behrang Kushavand
Dear Prof. Clark Here is the paper: http://www.ansinet.org/fulltext/jas/jas581405-1407.pdf Formula (4) is the weight factor. King regards. Behrang.    - Original Message - From: Isobel Clark To: Behrang Kushavand Cc: AI Geostats mailing list Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2

RE: [ai-geostats] Re: Software for Automatic Semivariogram Estimation

2006-02-28 Thread Pierre Goovaerts
Hi Susan, I would recommend the Stanford Geostatistical Modeling Software (S-GeMS) that is public domain and that I use in all my short courses (some of your colleagues have actually be trained by me). The software can be downloaded from http://pangea.stanford.edu/~nremy/GEMS/ Cheers, Pierre

RE: [ai-geostats] Software for Automatic Semivariogram Estimation

2006-02-28 Thread Pierre Goovaerts
Hello, I have been using a modified version of VARFIT that is available on the Computer and Geosciences website. Pardo-Iguzquiza E: VARFIT: a Fortran-77 program for fitting variogram models by weighted least squares. Computers and Geosciences 1999, 25:251-261. I agree that choosing a set o

[ai-geostats] Re: Software for Automatic Semivariogram Estimation

2006-02-28 Thread Isobel Clark
Ed   I use the Cressie statistic to four significant figures as a guide in the interactive fitting, but generally end up using a visual judgement. It tracks as you drag the model around, so you can watch it change.   I think the 'real' visual objective function is probably the perpendicular (to

RE: [ai-geostats] Comparison of sample areas

2006-02-28 Thread Mat (University Account)
Hi Chris, It depends on the inference space you wish to work in. If your hypothesis is justing testing for a difference in the population means of the three survey extents (fields), then any underlying autocorrelation in the population(s) is not really problematic - it is actually a bonus (i.e

Re: [ai-geostats] Re: Software for Automatic Semivariogram Estimation

2006-02-28 Thread Edzer J. Pebesma
Isobel Clark wrote: Behrang What weighting do you use in the weighted least squares? Isobel I have found choosing suitable weights always a frustrating event. Cressie's weights, let's say N_h/[(gamma(h))^2], has attractive properties, both intuitively and statistically. Here, gamma(h) is t

RE: [ai-geostats] Re: Software for Automatic Semivariogram Estimation

2006-02-28 Thread Hohner, Susan
Yikes!   I was working through the tutorial for the Geostatistical Analyst Extension when this email discussion popped up.  Any recommendations for a “traditional geostatistics software package”?   Thanks, Susan   Susan Hohner, Senior Geographer Everglades Division, Mail Stop 4440

[ai-geostats] Re: Software for Automatic Semivariogram Estimation

2006-02-28 Thread Isobel Clark
Behrang   What weighting do you use in the weighted least squares?   Isobel http://www.kriging.comBehrang Kushavand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi,I have a software for Variogram AUTO Modeling (winvam) that works with gslib(GAMV.exe).First you must calculate experimental variogram (omni or dir

Re: [ai-geostats] Re: Software for Automatic Semivariogram Estimation

2006-02-28 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
Dear all,   I have the same concerns with ArcGIS Geostatistical Analyst Extension (v.9.1). I would use a traditional geostatistics software package to fit the variogram models in a very traditional way, and input the parameters to ArcGIS for kriging. It seems that ArcGIS has its own

[ai-geostats] Re: Software for Automatic Semivariogram Estimation

2006-02-28 Thread Isobel Clark
Hi All   It is difficult to have an automatic best fit semi-variogram until you define what you mean by "best fit". Noel Cressie's goodness of fit statistic goes a long way towards the ideal, but is very insensitive to changes in nugget effect and pretty insensitive to fairly large changes in the

Re: [ai-geostats] Software for Automatic Semivariogram Estimation

2006-02-28 Thread Edzer J. Pebesma
Mach Nife wrote: Hi, I'm hunting for a software (freeware/openSource if possible), that would help estimating the best possible semivariogram curve in a non-interactive way. As an example, ArcGis Geostatistical Analyst does a pretty good job at this when we accept the defaults. It does some aut

[ai-geostats] Software for Automatic Semivariogram Estimation

2006-02-28 Thread Mach Nife
Hi, I'm hunting for a software (freeware/openSource if possible), that would help estimating the best possible semivariogram curve in a non-interactive way. As an example, ArcGis Geostatistical Analyst does a pretty good job at this when we accept the defaults. It does some automatic calculations

RE: [ai-geostats] Comparison of sample areas

2006-02-28 Thread Colin Badenhorst
Chris, How about using a "T-test" to test for similar sample means, or an F-test to test for similar sample variance? Regards, Colin -Original Message- From: C.J.Banks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 February 2006 14:26 To: ai-geostats Subject: [ai-geostats] Comparison of sample ar

[ai-geostats] Comparison of sample areas

2006-02-28 Thread C.J.Banks
Dear All I have sampled three rectangular fields within a larger area and measured a variable of interest at a lot of points in each of these fields. Values were taken from all over each of the sampled fields but are not necessarily over a systematic grid. I am interested in testing whether the