Conservative updating of sampling designs

Helle K., Pebesma E.

Forschungsartikel in Sammelband (Konferenz)

Zusammenfassung

When improving existing monitoring networks, to adapt to changed requirements, keeping as many stations as possible is cheapest and therefore often preferred over a completely new setup. Here, the sampling design for ambient gamma dose monitoring in Norway is optimised. We consider two goals: equal spread of stations, and detection of plumes that affect densely populated areas. For optimisation, we compare and improve algorithms that replace the existing stations one by one: a greedy algorithm replaces the most unimportant station by the best candidate station; random replacement keeps all random improvements. A new approach is random replacement that rejects all sampling designs with too many stations moved. We add a penalty term to the cost function to search sampling designs with few station moves. This combines the advantages of the two previous approaches: The greedy algorithm replaces the most unimportant stations only, therefore as many stations as possible are kept. Random search can consider more candidates and often is faster. Random replacement with penalty is faster than the greedy algorithms, whereas for detection, the resulting sampling designs were of the same quality: moving a station pays off with a similar improvement in cost.

Details zur Publikation

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Seiten: 4
Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2010
Verlag: International Spatial Accuracy Research Association (ISARA)
Sprache, in der die Publikation verfasst ist: Englisch
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