Recall that the goal of this example is spatial prediction. In particular, you would like to produce a contour map or surface plot on a regular grid of predicted values based on ordinary kriging.
Spatial prediction, in general, is any prediction method that incorporates spatial dependence. A simple and popular spatial prediction method is ordinary kriging. Ordinary kriging requires a model of ...
ABSTRACT The authors use variograms of radar reflectivity as a summary statistic to describe the spatial continuity of Alpine precipitation on mesogamma scales. First, how to obtain such variograms is ...