Kriging is a technique that provides the Best Linear Unbiased Estimator of the unknown fields (Journel and Huijbregts, 1978; Kitanidis, 1997). It is a local estimator that can provide the interpolation and extrapolation of the originally sparsely sampled data that are assumed to be reasonably characterized by the Intrinsic Statistical Model (ISM). An ISM does not require the quantity of interest to be stationary, i.e. its mean and standard deviation are independent of position, but rather that its covariance function depends on the separation of two data points only.
The kriging software described in this document was developed by Dezhang Chu with funding from the National Science Foundation through the U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank Project's Program Service and Data Management Office. It was originally inspired by a MATLAB toolbox developed by Yves Gratton and Caroline Lafleur (INRS-Oceanologie, Rimouski, Qc, Canada), and Jeff Runge (Institut Maurice-Lamontagne, now with University of New Hampshire). This software may be reproduced for noncommercial purposes only.