Re: AI-GEOSTATS: Nonstationary Random Function

2007-05-07 Thread Gerald van den Boogaart
Dear Dr. Abedini, As far as I understand there are two different definitions of the variogram around: 2\gamma(x,x)=Var(Y(x)-Y(x'))=VAR[Y(x)-m(x)-Y(x')+m(x')] and 2\gamma(x,x)=E[(Y(x)-Y(x'))^2]=VAR[Y(x)-m(x)-Y(x')+m(x')]+ (m(x')-m(x))^2 and furthermore the second definition is often applied t

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: sill, range and variogram type

2007-05-07 Thread Gerald van den Boogaart
Dear Vikas Singh, This is no direct answer directing to a specific software, but just my personal experience: I saw such automated fitting procedures in some bundle programs (If I remember right, e.g. in Surfer and ArcGIS) done some kind of geostatistics and I did some programming of my own tr

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: sill, range and variogram type

2007-05-07 Thread Edzer J. Pebesma
Gerald van den Boogaart wrote: ... Than one could either rely on Bayesian Kriging using the inferred possible range of parameters and the typical variogram shape as a prior or check the reliability of the various automated fitting procedures (which hopefully the others in the list will suppl