Optimal sampling design and minimal effort for soil charcoal analyses considering the soil type and forest history

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 627-637 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Feiss ◽  
Hélène Horen ◽  
Boris Brasseur ◽  
Jonathan Lenoir ◽  
Jérôme Buridant ◽  
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Ecology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gates Dupont ◽  
J. Andrew Royle ◽  
Muhammad Ali Nawaz ◽  
Chris Sutherland

2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimír Lacko

ABSTRACT We study exact optimal designs for processes governed by mean- -reversion stochastic differential equations with a time dependent volatility and known mean-reversion speed. It turns out that any mean-reversion It¯o process has a product covariance structure.We prove the existence of a nondegenerate optimal sampling design for the parameter estimation and derive the information matrix corresponding to the observation of the full path. The results are demonstrated on a process with exponential volatility.


2017 ◽  
Vol 186 ◽  
pp. 559-566
Author(s):  
Antonietta Simone ◽  
Luigi Berardi ◽  
Daniele Laucelli ◽  
Orazio Giustolisi

1999 ◽  
Vol 56 (6) ◽  
pp. 907-914 ◽  
Author(s):  
W J Fletcher ◽  
Neil R Sumner

The abundance of eggs and larvae of sardine (pilchard) (Sardinops sagax) off the south coast of Western Australia was investigated using geostatistical and bootstrap resampling techniques. A two-dimensional correlogram showed that the patch of newly spawned pilchard eggs had dimensions of 8 nautical miles (M) in diameter in the offshore direction and 10 M in the alongshore direction. For older stages, the size of the patch tended to increase and the level of cohesion decrease. It was more difficult to determine the size of the patch from directional variograms. The abundance of 1- and 2-day-old eggs in the study area was estimated using ordinary kriging. A bootstrapping analysis suggested that the optimal sampling design for day 1 eggs should use 4 × 10 M grids, an increase in intensity on the 5 × 15 M grids used in previous surveys.


2009 ◽  
Vol 66 (9) ◽  
pp. 1873-1882 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Liu ◽  
Yong Chen ◽  
Jiahua Cheng

Abstract Liu, Y., Chen, Y., and Cheng, J. 2009. A comparative study of optimization methods and conventional methods for sampling design in fishery-independent surveys. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 66: 1873–1882. We have introduced and evaluated a procedure, the constrained spatial simulated annealing method, for developing an optimal sampling design for fishery-independent surveys. We used two criterion functions, minimization of the mean of the shortest distance (MMSD) and uniform distribution of point pairs for variogram estimation (WM), and three arrangements of the two criteria, all WM, all MMSD, and a combination of MMSD (2/3 of samples) and WM (1/3), to construct three optimized sampling designs (denoted as Designs I, II, and III, respectively). These three designs were compared in a simulation study with systematic sampling (Design IV) and stratified random sampling designs (Design V), commonly used in fishery-independent surveys. Three levels of sample size (small, medium, and large) were considered in the simulation study developed using a geostatistical approach. The results showed that for parameter estimation of the spatial covariance function, Design III was better than the other designs at relatively small sample size and Design II performed better than the other designs at relatively large sample size. For estimating fish stock abundance, the performance of the designs considered in this study can be ranked as follows: Design II > Design IV > Design III > Design V > Design I. It is clearly important to evaluate and improve sampling design based on historical survey data. Such a study allows us to identify an optimal sampling design to balance the quality of the data collected and the costs of the sampling programme, leading to the development and optimization of a sustainable and fishery-independent monitoring programme.


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Author(s):  
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Enric Ballesteros ◽  
Joan Lluís Riera ◽  
Eglantine Chappuis ◽  
Marc Terradas ◽  
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