To my question on the use of rodograms I got the two following references: Paul Harris gave me the following:
Journel A. 1988. +IBw-New distance measures: the route toward truly non-gaussian geostatistics+IB0, mathematical geology vol 20 no 4. Pierre Goovaerts mentioned at paper presented at the Geostat congress in Avignon, 1988. Srivastava and Parker. 1989.Robust measures of spatial continuity. in M. Armstrong, editor, Geostatistics, pages 295-308, Kluwer, Dordrecht. I will certainly have a look at these papers. On the basis of what I have found so far, I still have a question about the use of rodograms. In Pierre+IBk-s book, (page 31), the following is discussed: influence of extreme values can be reduced by using lower values of the order of the variogram (2 = traditional semivariogram, 1 = madogram, +AL0 = rodogram). On page 86, it is further mentioned that relative rodograms and madograms provide information (range, anisotropy) on large-scale features. This last point is also mentioned in the manual of the GeostatOffice software +IBw-Rodograms and madograms are useful for investigating large-scale structures, where data are usually rather rough. If p=2 we get the most traditional measure called variogram, it opens finer sides of data correlation and can fail for rough data where rodogram and madogram succeed.+IB0 (see http://www.ibrae.ac.ru/+AH4-mkanev/eng/gsoffice/HELP/Appendix.html) My original question on rodogram came from a micro scale analysis of 9 points located very closely (measurements of radioactivity made on a grid with nodes separated by 12 cm). The fact that only the rodogram revealed a clear spatial structure (unless you do an audacious regression of the experimental semivariogram) might be an artefact due to the very few samples or a correct approach if it wouldn+IBk-t contradict the theory claiming that rodograms are more useful for large-scale structures. Is this argumentation based on theory or on experience with environmental data? I would appreciate your feedback about this last point. Gregoire (Has everyone made a new +IBM year resolution on contributing to AI-GEOSTATS ?? The activity of the mailing list has been boosted tremendously since the beginning of this year). -- * 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
