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Geostatistical Mapping for Hazardous Waste Sites

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Satkin, Richard L.
Georgakakos, Aristidis P.
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Hatcher, Kathryn J.
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Three commonly used techniques (inverse distance squared, linear interpolation, and kriging) for interpolating spatial data points were compared on the basis of robustness and accuracy. The results demonstrate that 1) kriging is a more robust contouring method; 2) kriging provides explicit measures of estimation accuracy; and 3) kriging balances the risks of misclassification (false positive and false negative error rates).
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Sponsored by U.S. Geological Survey, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, the University of Georgia, Georgia State University, and Georgia Institute of Technology.
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1991
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