Groundwater is a vital source of freshwater in both urban and rural regions of the world.
However, its injudicious abstraction and rapidly increasing contamination are posing a …

This Brief takes readers, in particular environmental scientists, through the important steps of
a geostatistical analysis. Most properties of the environment, such as rainfall, plant nutrients …

Geostatistics is essential for environmental scientists. Weather and climate vary from place
to place, soil varies at every scale at which it is examined, and even man-made attributes …

This chapter sets the scene for the two main topics of this book, namely geostatistics and
precision agriculture. The aim is to provide readers with a foundation for what is to come in …

Fields are the original management zones used in agricultural ecosystems. Uniformity of soil
within management zones (MZ) is crucial for sustainable soil management, long-term …

The investigation of throughfall patterns has received considerable interest over the last
decades. And yet, the geographical bias of pertinent previous studies and their …

Many approaches have been proposed over the last two decades for managing the spatial
variation of soil and crops. In this chapter we discuss the importance of quantifying and …

In the last decades, an increasing number of studies analyzed spatial patterns in throughfall
by means of variograms. The estimation of the variogram from sample data requires an …

Hyperspectral visible near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (VNIRRS) and geostatistical
methods are considered for precision soil mapping. This study evaluated whether VNIR or …

Precision Agriculture (PA) commonly uses interpolation to generate maps for site-specific
management. Semivariogram modeling with kriging interpolation considerers several …