A new spatial sampling method is proposed in order to achieve a double property of
balancing. The sample is spatially balanced or well spread so as to avoid selecting …

Spatially distributed data exhibit particular characteristics that should be considered when
designing a survey of spatial units. Unfortunately, traditional sampling designs generally do …

Spatially balanced sampling is becoming a popular design for surveys in biological and
environmental management. For large scale surveys, where the region of interest is too …

When sampling from a continuous population (or distribution), we often want a rather small
sample due to some cost attached to processing the sample or to collecting information in …

The units observed in a biological, agricultural, and environmental survey are often
randomly selected from a finite population whose main feature is to be geo‐referenced thus …

The main aim of spatial sampling is to collect samples in 1-, 2-or 3-dimensional space. It is
typically used to estimate the total or mean for a parameter in an area, to optimize parameter …

Establishment surveys based on list frames often use stratified random sampling with a
small number of strata, H, and relatively large sample sizes, nh, within strata. For such …

Some environmental studies use non-probabilistic sampling designs to draw samples from
spatially distributed populations. Unfortunately, these samples can be difficult to analyse …

Many environmental variables are continuously scattered over a region and the target
parameter turns out to be the spatial total of the variable. In this setting, the design‐based …

The present work illustrates a sampling strategy useful for obtaining planned sample size for
domains belonging to different partitions of the population and in order to guarantee the …