Re: [ai-geostats] ai

[rocchini]

Right!!

 

I will forward this Gregoire e-mail message to my students, who will better understand that using user-friendly tools and interfaces and following "blind" analysis ways could lead to misleading results.

 

Duccio

 

 

Dr. Duccio Rocchini
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali "G. Sarfatti"
Universit� degli Studi di Siena
via P.A. Mattioli 4
53100 Siena
Tel. +39-0577235408
Cell. +39-3491425786
Fax +39-0577232896
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www.rocchini.net

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Gregoire Dubois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: <ai-geostats@unil.ch>

Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 10:01 AM

Subject: FW: [ai-geostats] ai

> Quoted from the homepage (see mailing list)
>
>
> "AI-GEOSTATS was called after Arc/Info (which explains the strange AI in
> AI-GEOSTATS), a widely distributed GIS, and geostatistics. The choice of
> the name is purely historical: as a young Ph.D. student in radioecology,
> I was looking for information on basic tools developed for the
> statistical analysis of spatial data and realised not only that the
> tools proposed in the environmental sciences were elementary, but also
> that more advanced tools were working like black boxes. Basically, most
> GIS provided their users with a magic button "create map" and that was
> all the users asked for at that time, not being aware of the fact that
> many methods were existing. The question on "what interpolation method
> between the many available in the literature should I use?" became
> almost an obsession and I ended up doing a Ph.D. in the field. There was
> such a high interest about this topic (many Arc/Info users were indeed
> curious about the strange terms of kriging and variograms) that I
> created my own "cluster" within ESRI's user group. I was putting the
> words AI-GEOSTATS in the headers of my mails to attract more attention.
> Being a bit invasive, I was recommended to start a brand new mailing
> list.
>
> ....
>
> "
>
>
>
> Now you know everything :)
>
> Gregoire
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Digby Millikan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 07 June 2005 07:44
> To: ai-geostats
> Subject: [ai-geostats] ai
>
>
> What does the 'ai' stand for in 'ai-geostats'
>
>
>
>
>

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