[R-sig-Geo] How to automatically fit variogram in gstat

[Paul Hiemstra]

Hi,

One option is to use the automap package, this provides the function
autofitVariogram and autoKrige. Automap is available on CRAN. An
alternative is to use the fit.variogram function from gstat (which
automap also does).

An additional comment, 8 stations is not a lot to base variogram models
on. Think carefully how you want to solve this problem. Maybe you can
make some kind of aggregated sample variogram that incorporates not only
the data from one day, but of one month. In this way you can increase
the amount of data you use to create the variogram. But still, just 8
stations looks to be quite a challenge.

good luck!
Paul

ZK wrote:
> Dear all,
> I have daily pollutant measurements (CO, NO2, PM2.5 and Ozone) at 8 monitors from 2005 to 2008.  My purpose is to estimate daily exposures for studying subjects using Kriging for three years.  A common procedure is to plot experimental variogram and then to choose a theoretical model (e.g., exponential model or Gaussian model) with some adjustment on parameters.  However, this manual way is not appropriate for my application. I am wondering how I can fit variogram in gstat automatically. 
>
> I appreciate your response and best regards,
> Kai
>
> 	
>
>
>
>
> __________________________________________________
> 赶快注册雅虎超大容量免费邮箱?
>
> _______________________________________________
> R-sig-Geo mailing list
> R-sig-Geo at stat.math.ethz.ch
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
>   


-- 
Drs. Paul Hiemstra
Department of Physical Geography
Faculty of Geosciences
University of Utrecht
Heidelberglaan 2
P.O. Box 80.115
3508 TC Utrecht
Phone:  +3130 274 3113 Mon-Tue
Phone:  +3130 253 5773 Wed-Fri
http://intamap.geo.uu.nl/~paul