{"id":433894,"date":"2026-08-24T17:23:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T09:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.usj.edu.mo\/?post_type=tnc_col_19837_item&#038;p=433894"},"modified":"2026-08-24T18:33:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T10:33:43","slug":"evaluation-of-deterministic-spatial-interpolators-with-mygeoffice-the-utah-grasshoppers-case","status":"publish","type":"tnc_col_19837_item","link":"https:\/\/library.usj.edu.mo\/zh\/scholarly-work-usj\/evaluation-of-deterministic-spatial-interpolators-with-mygeoffice-the-utah-grasshoppers-case\/","title":{"rendered":"EVALUATION OF DETERMINISTIC SPATIAL INTERPOLATORS WITH MYGEOFFICE\u00a9: THE UTAH GRASSHOPPERS CASE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE KNOWLEDGE OF SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF GRASSHOPPERS CAN BE VERY RELEVANT FOR AGRICULTURAL PLANNING PURPOSES. ON THE OTHER HAND, THE COMPARISON OF SPATIAL INTERPOLATORS FOR EFFICIENCY AND RELIABILITY REASONS IS ALSO A KEY FACTOR TO UNDERSTAND INTERPOLATION MAPS OUTCOMES (VERSUS REALITY). AT LAST, BUT NOT LEAST, THE USE OF OPEN WEB GEOGRAPHICAL TOOLS TO DISSEMINATE TRUE SPATIAL INFERENTIAL METHODS TO ADDRESS SPATIAL ISSUES IS STILL QUITE LIMITED (IF NONE) IN HIGH SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES, PARTICULARLY IN GEOGRAPHY SUBJECTS. IF THE LATTER CAN BE ADDRESSED WITH MYGEOFFICE\u00a9, THE FIRST ISSUE WILL USE THE UTAH, USA, DATASET (58 SAMPLES) TO LAYOUT THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF GRASSHOPPERS AND UNDERSTAND THE COUNTIES THAT ARE MORE PRO TO THIS KIND OF AGRICULTURE INFESTATION. INVERSE DISTANCE WEIGHTED (IDW), MOVING AVERAGE (MA), MULTI-QUADRATIC, INVERSE MULTI-QUADRATIC AND NEAREST NEIGHBOR (NN) WILL PRODUCE INTERPOLATED SURFACES OF GRASSHOPPER\u2019S PROPERTIES. EFFICIENCY OF SPATIAL INTERPOLATORS WAS ASSESSED IN THIS WRITING BASED ON THE PREDICTION ERROR\u2019S STATISTICS DERIVED FROM THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE ESTIMATION AND THE REAL SAMPLES ON A CROSS-VALIDATION PROCEDURE. 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