A review of comparative studies of spatial interpolation methods in environmental sciences: Performance and impact factors

J Li, AD Heap - Ecological Informatics, 2011 - Elsevier
Spatial interpolation methods have been applied to many disciplines. Many factors affect the
performance of the methods, but there are no consistent findings about their effects. In this
study, we use comparative studies in environmental sciences to assess the performance
and to quantify the impacts of data properties on the performance. Two new measures are
proposed to compare the performance of the methods applied to variables with different
units/scales. A total of 53 comparative studies were assessed and the performance of 72 …