[ai-geostats] natural neighbor applied to indicator transforms

2005-08-30 Thread seba
Dear list members I would like to have some comments, suggestions or critics about the following topic: building a (preliminary) local uncertainty model of the spatial distribution of discrete (categorical) variables by means of natural neighbor interpolation method applied to indicator

RE: [ai-geostats] natural neighbor applied to indicator transforms

2005-08-31 Thread seba
a debate on regression versus classification... I presume there may there some material as well regarding the issue discussed below. Best regards, Gregoire -Original Message- From: seba [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30 August 2005 18:17 To: ai-geostats@unil.ch Subject: [ai-geostats

RE: [ai-geostats] natural neighbor applied to indicator transforms

2005-09-02 Thread seba
I try to reformulate my question. When performing direct (i.e. without crossvariogram) indicator kriging, practically we interpolate probability values by means of ordinary kriging. These probability values could represent the probability of occurrence of some category or the probability to

RE: [ai-geostats] natural neighbor applied to indicator transforms

2005-09-05 Thread seba
will be one). Pierre -Original Message- From: Gregoire Dubois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 9/5/2005 7:00 AM To: 'seba'; ai-geostats@unil.ch Cc: Subject: RE: [ai-geostats] natural neighbor applied to indicator transforms Ciao

[ai-geostats] 3D cross-variograms fittind

2006-03-01 Thread seba
Dear list members Despite free opensource software (for example Gstat) could perform full indicator Kriging (i.e. using cross variogram) I have not found free software for fitting 3D cross variograms. Surely, commercial software can do that, but it could be a little bit expensive from the

Re: [ai-geostats] software for 3D visualization

2006-03-13 Thread seba
There is, also vis5d that from what I have seen it could works. Then also in grass gis software there is something for 3D visualization. In general I have seen that most software for 3D visualization work fine for continuos attributes while for discrete one you have to play a little with color

RE: [ai-geostats] Comparing autocorrelation (semivariogram) surfaces

2006-03-28 Thread seba
not in any circumstances be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission. -Original Message- From: seba [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 28 March 2006 10:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ai-geostats] Comparing autocorrelation (semivariogram) surfaces Hi

Re: [ai-geostats] Re: Puzzling question

2006-04-10 Thread seba
Hi You could also express the variogram in this other form 2gamma(h) = Var{Z(u)-Z(u+h)} = E{[Z(u)-Z(u + h)]^2}-E{ Z(u)-Z(u+h)}^2 the second element of the right equation goes away when the phenomenon is stationary. Sebastiano At 21.15 09/04/2006, Isobel Clark wrote: Hi. At last one I can

Re: [ai-geostats] Need your advise

2006-05-05 Thread seba
dear Reza Nazarian I think that there are many things to say about this topic.(for example the idea to use a gaussian distribution for porosity should be checked). But I think that in the good book Geostatistical reservoir modeling: Clayton V. Deutsch, Oxford University press you will find

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: kriging estimation precision

2008-01-14 Thread seba
Hi Well, in general the simulations are useful if you need to evaluate spatial uncertainty, for example if you have to apply some transfer function to your data or the need to evaluate the probability that some neighbor cells overcome jointly a given threshold. Then kriging variance is

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: A software

2008-01-28 Thread seba
Hi Maybe you can ask to the authors of the various papers about transition probabilities. From what I remember in groundwater vista (or maybe GSM) t-prog is implemented for modeling 3d geological architecture. Bye Sebastiano T At 17.21 25/01/2008, you wrote: Dear list, A would appreciate

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: Correlation between kriging residuals and input data

2008-01-31 Thread seba
Hi Gregoire If I have understood the problem, the weird thing is that if there is a strong correlation between data and residuals and your data show continuity, the residuals should not present a pure nugget effect. Sebastiano T. At 12.59 30/01/2008, Gregoire Dubois wrote: Dear list,

AI-GEOSTATS: Linear Variograms and default parameters

2008-02-04 Thread seba
Dear list members I would like to share a short consideration. Some day ago I was doing some prediction exercises by means of ordinary kriging with linear variograms. And doing this exercise I realized (something that probably I should have realized many years ago!) that things change when

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: kriging or IDW in case study of hydrology?

2008-02-20 Thread seba
Hi Well, some time you have the impression that kriging is not an exact interpolator because of you have a high nugget effect and the interpolation grid nodes have not the same location of available data. The variability represented by the nugget effect is filtered every time an

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: kriging or IDW in case study of hydrology?

2008-02-22 Thread seba
Hi Isobel I didn't know the existence of the two schools of thought! So thanks for the clarification. The point is the I interpret smoothing (filtering) properties of kriging by means of the dual representation of kriging interpolator given for example in Goovaerts's book Geostatistics for

AI-GEOSTATS: software: optimization of sampling for regression problems

2008-02-22 Thread seba
Dear list members I'm trying to find a software which permits to optimize the sampling network (number and combinations of samples) for problems of bivariate or multiple regression. This is a typical problem in monitoring. We start with N monitoring stations and we try to build a regression

RE: AI-GEOSTATS: software: optimization of sampling for regress

2008-03-07 Thread seba
of their informative content. In some way, kriging, which gives less weight to clustered samples, goes already in this direction. Sebastiano At 16.50 06/03/2008, Melles, Stephanie wrote: Hi Seba, I noticed that there were no responses to your posting from a few weeks back and I'm cleaning out my mailbox today

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: indicator kiging (/variography) with trends

2008-04-09 Thread seba
Hi Well, with indicator a trend means (from my point of view) that there is some trend in the probability of occurrence of a given category. If you use a ordinary kriging with a small neighbor search in some way you already take into account the trend (i.e. with ok we assume that the mean

AI-GEOSTATS: The trend ...again

2008-05-16 Thread seba
There was something wrong with the last message (the message for some reason appear cutted!?) ...I send it again... Dear list members Another time, I have some questions about the decomposition between the trend and residuals. I have some philosophical as well as technical questions for you.

RE: AI-GEOSTATS: The trend ...again

2008-07-14 Thread seba
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Re: AI-GEOSTATS: Question about modelling variograms of a residual property

2008-07-23 Thread seba
Hi Patricia I think that an indicator (or a transition probability) approach could be easier to interpret (i.e. each indicator variogram tell you something about the spatial pattern of each single facies). Then, in regard to the sill of your variogram it depends if your variogram is calculated

Fwd: Re: AI-GEOSTATS: Coordinate transformation

2008-10-08 Thread seba
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:24:46 +0200 To: enayat khojasteh [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: seba [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AI-GEOSTATS: Coordinate transformation Hi Well, in my opinion your transformation is meaningful if effectively the spatial variability along the vertical direction (i.e

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: stratifying the spatial domain on the basis of dependent variable

2009-01-09 Thread seba
Hi Cristiano I think that you can try to use moving windows statistics to check if there are strong differences in variability and mean values among the eastern and southern part of the spatial domain (obviously trying to understand the processes behind these differences). Then, I guess that

Re:AI-GEOSTATS: variogram and fractals

2009-03-17 Thread seba
Dear List members I received a lot of references from you and I was also lucky because last week I had the possibility to be at a small workshop of B. D. Malamud (who worked a lot on fractals and time series), who suggested me some other references about the issue. Now I'm in hurry...but I hope

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: variogram and fractals

2009-04-01 Thread seba
variable that is distributed NOT on a transect, but rather at discontinuous (i.e. random) locations in a 2D study area? Thank you, Gustavo Vasques --- Em qua, 11/3/09, seba sebastiano.trevis...@libero.it escreveu: De: seba sebastiano.trevis...@libero.it Assunto: AI-GEOSTATS: variogram

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: Vertical variogram and cycle effect

2009-06-04 Thread seba
Hi I'm not sure of your question..did you mean that you see a periodic behavior on variogram? On which physical-chemical attribute did you calculate it? Well, having to do with geology I guess that your periodicity is related to layering. Bye Sebastiano At 00.09 04/06/2009, Reza

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: Unconditional simulation

2009-11-17 Thread seba
Hi Nick One way is to use simulated annealing (see gslib) putting as objective function your desired variogram and histogram. (but I guess that by means of some data transformation you can do that with a simple sequential gaussian simulation approach) Bye Sebas At 10.06 17/11/2009, Nick Hamm

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: (1) Geostatistics in pain

2010-01-07 Thread seba
Hi In general I agree with the comments reported in the preceding replies. Then I would add that the problem, if any one exists, doesn't relies on the lack of a good gui but maybe on the lack of a kind of standard and internationally accepted set of programming routines directed to

AI-GEOSTATS:

2010-01-31 Thread seba
Dear list members I'm always fighting with the decomposition of trend and residuals or more generally I need to decompose my signal in high and low frequency variability. Without coming to wavelets techniques a simple way is to use moving window averages to obtain a smoothed signal and

AI-GEOSTATS: moving averages and trend

2010-02-01 Thread seba
Maybe I'm getting old...there was something wrong also in the past mail! Please consider this one. Sorry for the wrong mails. Dear list members I'm always fighting with the decomposition of trend and residuals or more generally I need to decompose my signal in high and low frequency

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: moving averages and trend

2010-02-01 Thread seba
Hi José Thank you for your reply. Effectively I'm trying to figure out the theoretical reasons for their use. Bye Sebas At 12.30 01/02/2010, José M. Blanco Moreno wrote: Dear Seba, As far as I know, the shape of the kernel is not that important. Any kernel will yield approximately the same

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: moving averages and trend

2010-02-01 Thread seba
Statistical Association, 85: 749-759. En/na seba ha escrit: Hi José Thank you for your reply. Effectively I'm trying to figure out the theoretical reasons for their use. Bye Sebas

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: moving averages and trend

2010-02-02 Thread seba
--- *From:* owner-ai-geost...@jrc.ec.europa.eu [mailto:owner-ai-geost...@jrc.ec.europa.eu] *On Behalf Of *seba *Sent:* 02 February 2010 08:39 *To:* Pierre Goovaerts *Cc:* ai-geostats@jrc.it *Subject:* Re: AI-GEOSTATS: moving averages and trend Hi Pierre I think that for my task factorial

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: books and software on Spatial-temporal analysis

2010-04-11 Thread seba
Hi I think this could be useful: Modern Spatiotemporal Geostatistics by http://www.amazon.com/Spatiotemporal-Geostatistics-Studies-Mathematical-Geology/dp//s/ref=rdr_ext_aut?_encoding=UTF8index=booksfield-author=George%20ChristakosGeorge Christakos Then I remeber that in Cressie's book there

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: Similar parallel project / geostatistical GPL library with no limit in the number of: dimensions...

2010-04-15 Thread seba
Hi Adrian Really interesting, I'll give a look! Sebas At 08.27 15/04/2010, you wrote: I'm working in a new geostatistical GPL library with no limit in the number of: dimensions, variables, external drifts, geographical drift, etc... It is callable from python. The preliminaries results are

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: Geostatistics for groundwater pollution

2010-04-20 Thread seba
Hi Marco Considering that you are dealing with 5 years average data, likely there should be some spatial continuity in your data...so, in a first instance, you should follow a geostatistical approach and see what data are telling you. But from a perspective of an hydrogeologist, first, I'll