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Space-Time Geostatistics

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Space-time geostatistics is concerned with the statistical modeling of environmental variables that vary in space as well as in time. It is an extension of conventional geostatistics, which only considers spatial variation. Common geostatistical concepts, such as the variogram, kriging, stochastic simulation, and sampling design optimization, have a natural extension in the space-time domain, although extra effort is required to model the joint variation in space and time effectively and realistically. The space-time variogram will have spatial and temporal components which may be very different because variation in space is not the same as variation in time. Space-time kriging takes these differences into account and yields optimal predictions at any point in the space-time domain of interest. The interpolation results can be displayed as a series or animations of spatial maps over time or as time series of predictions at as many spatial points as desired.

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  1. Environmental Sciences Group, Wageningen University and ISRIC World Soil Information, PO Box 47, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Gerard B. M. Heuvelink

  2. Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster, Heisenbergstr. 2, 48149, Münster, Germany

    Edzer Pebesma

  3. Institute of Hydrology, Ruhr University Bochum, Heisenbergstr. 2, 48149, Bochum, Germany

    Benedikt Gräler

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  1. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Shashi Shekhar

  2. Management Science and Information Systems Department, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, USA

    Hui Xiong

  3. Department of Management Sciences, Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Xun Zhou

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Heuvelink, G.B.M., Pebesma, E., Gräler, B. (2017). Space-Time Geostatistics. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_1647

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