SPATIAL DEPENDENCE DEGREE AND SAMPLING NEIGHBORHOOD INFLUENCE ON INTERPOLATION PROCESS FOR FERTILIZER PRESCRIPTION MAPS

ABSTRACT Data interpolation is widely required in precision agriculture. However, its effectiveness is a function of the characteristics of the dataset, being necessary for the evaluation of several parameters. This study aimed to identify how the spatial interpolators, Kriging, and Inverse Distance Weighting, are influenced by the degree of spatial dependence of the variables analyzed and the number of neighbors considered in the interpolation process (sampling neighborhood). Soil samples were collected from three sugarcane fields. By the optimization process, we verified that the sampling ne...