[R-sig-Geo] spatial moving average

[Satterthwaite, Paul]

Hello, 

I am a beginner with R, and have 2 questions concerning
spatial/geostatistics. 

I have an artificial landscape composed of a binary grid of patches
(patch=1) or gaps (patch=0), which leads to very periodic empirical
semivariograms. 

1)Is there an already-existing model semivariogram that contains a "hole
effect", i.e., includes some periodicity in the model semivariogram fit
to the empirical data? 


2) Is there a way I can smooth this periodicity using a local/moving
average of values in a local neighborhood around each point in the grid?

Any ideas would be GREATLY appreciated!
Cheers!

Sincerely, 

Paul M. Satterthwaite
MS Student, Forest Science
Richardson 201A
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331
paul.satterthwaite at oregonstate.edu