Improving copula-based spatial interpolation with secondary data
Improving copula-based spatial interpolation with secondary data
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DOI:
10.1016/j.spasta.2018.07.001
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发表时间:
2018-12-01
影响因子:
2.3
通讯作者:
Bardossy, Andras
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作者:
Gnann, Sebastian J.;Allmendinger, Max C.;Bardossy, Andras
Often, the primary variable of interest can be measured only rarely and/or indirectly. Hence, it is desired to use secondary correlated data to improve the estimation of the primary variable. This paper extends the Gaussian copula-based geostatistical approach for interpolation to include both real-valued primary and secondary data. Even more, multiple types of real-valued secondary data and categorical exhaustive secondary information were incorporated and the associated benefits analysed. The performance of the proposed inclusion of secondary data and information was compared to benchmark geostatistical methods (Ordinary Kriging, coKriging, external drift Kriging, and copula-based interpolation of the primary variable alone) by cross-validation and split sampling, with varying compositions of primary and secondary variables. The proposed method was tested for several groundwater quality parameters and the results show that a) the joint copula-based method outperforms co-Kriging in all quality measures; (b) physically impossible estimates (i.e., negative concentrations) never occur; (c) copula-based methods outperform Kriging methods in the quantification of uncertainty and result in more realistic spatial patterns of uncertainty. Joint methods lead to better results in cases when the primary variable is available at fewer locations than the secondary variable (i.e., undersampled case) and when the variables are meaningfully related. In copula-based spatial dependence models that are constructed in probability space, detrimental effects of non-normal (here: bi-modal) marginal distributions on the joint distribution and dissimilar measurement scales of the primary and secondary variables are prevented. The proposed method offers an efficient and non-linear alternative to co-Kriging. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.