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Ordinary Kriging

Ordinary Kriging (OK) is the standard geostatistical method for interpolating a continuous spatial variable at unsampled locations. It derives optimal, unbiased weights from the spatial covariance structure of the data, making it the Best Linear Unbiased Predictor (BLUP) under stationarity assumptions. Unlike simpler distance-based methods, it also provides a prediction uncertainty (kriging variance) at every interpolated point.

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Sources

  1. Matheron, G. (1963). Principles of geostatistics. Economic Geology, 58(8), 1246-1266. DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.58.8.1246
  2. Cressie, N. A. C. (1993). Statistics for Spatial Data (Revised ed.). Wiley-Interscience. ISBN: 978-0471002550

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ScholarGateOrdinary Kriging (Ordinary Kriging Spatial Interpolation). Retrieved 2026-06-04 from https://scholargate.app/en/spatial-analysis/ordinary-kriging