Hi Gregoire,
Thanks for refreshing our memory (I couldn't help smiling when you mentioned
that you were
considered a bit invasive by the ESRI community). Note that I attended a GIS
congress last week
and I was appalled to see the widespread misuse of geostatistics. The "magic
button" in ESRI products
has been replaced by a "series of magic buttons", which does not solve any
problem, in particular
when the implementation has not been carefully thought.
Pierre
-----Original Message-----
From: Gregoire Dubois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue 6/7/2005 4:01 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc:
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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