Abstract
Kriging maps are often part of the reported analyses in many environmental research studies including those our agency is working on in the area of precision/sustainable farming. All to often important details on the underlying variography and/or kriging procedures are omitted. Likewise the content and form of presenting kriging results vary greatly. Often features of the underlying variability are not readily seen. Instead of reviewing poor practice in current literature, we offer guidelines for reporting the methodology and presenting the results with the use of soil test phosphorus (STP) measures from a real world pasture study. Relevantly, the stationarity assumption for the variogram is argued; computational aspects for both the model and empirical variogram development are reported; and similarly, computational aspects for the kriging surface are reported. In short, enough detail is reported to understand and reproduce the analyses. Standard practice for presenting kriging results should include both the kriging estimates and the associated standard error map. Various planar and three dimensional plots are shown and discussed. Emphasis is on developing quality gray-scale planar maps for conventional publications. Ideally, for both recommended plots, patterns and unique features of the surfaces' variability are revealed.
Keywords
angle tolerance, bandwidth, binning, data grid, kriging grid, kriging neighborhood, lag tolerance, the practical rule, the pragmatic compromise weight, marginal plots, isopleth maps, contour maps
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Recommended Citation
Meek, D. W. and Sauer, T. J.
(2003).
"SUGGESTIONS FOR PRESENTING KRIGING RESULTS,"
Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture.
https://doi.org/10.4148/2475-7772.1191
SUGGESTIONS FOR PRESENTING KRIGING RESULTS
Kriging maps are often part of the reported analyses in many environmental research studies including those our agency is working on in the area of precision/sustainable farming. All to often important details on the underlying variography and/or kriging procedures are omitted. Likewise the content and form of presenting kriging results vary greatly. Often features of the underlying variability are not readily seen. Instead of reviewing poor practice in current literature, we offer guidelines for reporting the methodology and presenting the results with the use of soil test phosphorus (STP) measures from a real world pasture study. Relevantly, the stationarity assumption for the variogram is argued; computational aspects for both the model and empirical variogram development are reported; and similarly, computational aspects for the kriging surface are reported. In short, enough detail is reported to understand and reproduce the analyses. Standard practice for presenting kriging results should include both the kriging estimates and the associated standard error map. Various planar and three dimensional plots are shown and discussed. Emphasis is on developing quality gray-scale planar maps for conventional publications. Ideally, for both recommended plots, patterns and unique features of the surfaces' variability are revealed.
