Sampling for Natural Resource Monitoring [Paperback]

This book presents statistical knowledge, and methodology of sampling and data analysis specifically for spatial inventory and monitoring of local natural resources. The text shows how statistical methodology can be embedded in real-life spatial inventory and monitoring projects. The book functions as a design guide for efficient sampling schemes and monitoring systems can be designed, consistent with the aims and constraints of the project.

Designing Schemes for Survey and Monitoring.- Modes of Sampling and Statistical Inference.- Basic Design Principles.- Major Design Decisions.- Optimization of Sample Selection.- Sampling in Space.- to Sampling in Space.- Global Quantities in Space.- Local Quantities in Space.- Variograms.- Sampling in Time.- to Sampling in Time.- Global Quantities in Time.- Local Quantities in Time.- Time-Series Models.- Sampling in Space-Time.- to Sampling in Space-Time.- Global Quantities in Space-Time.- Local Quantities in Space-Time.

From the reviews:

Four pedometricians have written this new book on sampling. They are often consulted by colleagues who need to plan sampling schemes for monitoring, but have not felt able to recommend a book & . Here they aim to fill the gap with a sufficiently comprehensive overview of the topic so that that reader can choose an appropriate sampling method. & This is an indispensable and timely book. It draws together a lot of material that has not previously been put into a common framework. (R. M. Lark, European Journal of Soil Science, Vol. 58, 2007)

The present book provides the statistical methodology of monitoring that gives applied scientists sufficient guidance on how to design a monitoring scheme, which design decisions have to be taken, and how to optimize the sample selection. & the focus is on practitioners in the field of natural resource monitoring rather than statisticians & . (International Journal of Environlc*