Abstract
Collected data in soil heavy metal investigations may contain significant levels of uncertainty, including complex and even unexplainable spatial variations at a small investigation site. Therefore, this study identifies the spatial structure of soil zinc in the northern part of Changhua County in Taiwan to understand the spatial variation and uncertainty of soil zinc. The spatial maps of this heavy metal are simulated by using the geostatistical simulation, and estimated by using ordinary kriging and natural log kriging. The estimation and simulation results indicate that Sequential Gaussian Simulations can reproduce the spatial structure for investigated data. Furthermore, displaying a low spatial variability, the ordinary kriging and natural log kriging estimates can not fit the spatial structure and small‐scale variation for the soil zinc investigated data. The maps of kriging estimates are much smoother than those of simulations. Sequential Gaussian Simulation with multiple realizations has significant advantages at a site with high variation investigated data over ordinary kriging, even natural log kriging techniques. Geographic information systems display these simulation and estimation results.
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