Interfacing Geostatistics and GIS

This volume has been divided into three parts:

Part I starts with general aspects of geostatistical model building (Pebesma) and then new methodological developments in geostatics are presented, in particular this pertains to neural networks (Parkin and Kanevski), Gibbs fields as used in statistical physics (Hristopulos). Furthermore, new developments in Bayesian spatial interpolation with skewed heavy-tailed data and new classification methods based on wavelets (Hofer et al.) and support vector machines (Chaouch et al.) are presented.

Part II contains applications of geostatistics to such diverse areas as geodetic network modelling (Čepek and Pytel), land use policy (Müller and Munroe), precipitation fields modelling (Ahrens), air pollution monitoring (Shibli and Dubois), soil characterization (Sunila and Horttanainen) and soil

contamination modelling (Palaseanu-Lovejoy et al.). But also new application areas such as traffic modelling (Braxmeier et al.) and spatial modelling of entrepreneurship data (Breitenecker et al.) are touched.

Part III is devoted to the issues of the integration of different types of information systems. The paper by Krivoruchko and Bivand deals with the problems of interfacing GIS and spatial statistics software systems, from the perspecitves of users and developers. An application of GIS in connection with spatial analysis of remotely sensed agricultural data is reported by Sambrakos and Tsiligiridis.

Contents

Part I 

Geostatistical Modeling Aspects and New (Geo)statistical Tools How We Build Geostatistical Models and Deal with Their Output

Edzer J. Pebesma ................................................ 3

Spartan Random Fields: Smoothness Properties of Gaussian Densities and Definition of Certain Non-Gaussian Models

Dionissios T. Hristopulos ......................................... 17

Bayesian Trans-Gaussian Kriging with Log-Log Transformed Skew Data

Gunter Spöck, Hannes Kazianka, and Jürgen Pilz .................... 29

Kriging and Splines: Theoretical Approach to Linking Spatial Prediction Methods

Philipp Pluch .................................................... 45

ANNEX Model: Artificial Neural Networks with External Drift Environmental Data Mapping

R. Parkin and M. Kanevski ....................................... 57

Regional Classification of Indoor Radon Data with Support Vector Machines and Geostatistical Tools

A. Chaouch, M. Kanevski, M. Maignan, A. Pozdnoukhov, J. Rodriguez,

and G. Piller .................................................... 65

Daubechies Wavelets for Identification of Rock Variants from IR Spectra

Vera Hofer, Jürgen Pilz, and Thorgeir S. Helgason ................... 79

Part II 

Geostatistical Applications Simulating the Effects of Rural Development Policies on

Land Use: Evidence from Spatially Explicit Modeling in the Central Highlands of Vietnam

Daniel Müller and Darla K. Munroe ................................ 91

Kriged Road-Traffic Maps

Hans Braxmeier, Volker Schmidt, and Evgeny Spodarev ............... 105

On Evaluation of Precipitation Fields with Rain Station Data

Bodo Ahrens .................................................... 121

Robust Spatial Correlation Analysis of the ETEX-1 Tracer Data

Syed Shibli and Gregoire Dubois .................................... 137

Fuzzy Model of Soil Polygons for Managing the Imprecision

Rangsima Sunila and Pekka Horttanainen ........................... 153

Mapping the Contaminant Legacy of a Coking Plant, The

Avenue, Chesterfield, UK

Monica Palaseanu-Lovejoy, Ian Douglas, and Robert Barr ............. 161

A Note on Numerical Solutions of Least Squares Adjustment in GNU Project Gama

Aleš Čepek and Jan Pytel ......................................... 173

Presentation of Entrepreneurship Data and Aspects of Spatial Modeling

Robert J. Breitenecker, Jürgen Pilz, and Erich J. Schwarz ............. 189

Part III 

Integrated Information Systems: Combining (Geo)Statistics, GIS and RDBMS GIS, Users, Developers, and Spatial Statistics: On Monarchs and Their Clothing

Konstantin Krivoruchko and Roger Bivand .......................... 203

Reassignment of the Farm Structure Statistical Data Using GIS and Spatialisation of the Results Based on Remotely Sensed Data

M. Sambrakos and T. Tsiligiridis .................................. 223

Epidemiological Information Systems

V. Gómez-Rubio, J. Ferrándiz-Ferragud, and A. López-Quílez .......... 235

Geomatics, Epidemiology and BioStatistics: An Application to Acute Coronary Syndrome

Théophile Niyonsenga, Josiane Courteau, Charmaine Dean, Abbas Hemiari, Goze Bénié, and Alain Vanasse ........................... 249

Interactive Cumulative Curves for Exploratory Classification Maps

Gennady Andrienko and Natalia Andrienko ......................... 261

Combining REmbeddedPostgres and PostGIS

Albrecht Gebhardt ................................................ 273

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

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