Capture the Dominant Spatial Patten with Two-Dimensional Locations

Wen-Ting Wang

Objective

Represent how to use SpatPCA for two-dimensional data for capturing the most dominant spatial pattern

Basic settings

Used packages

True spatial pattern (eigenfunction)

Experiment

Generate 2-D realizations

Animate realizations

Apply SpatPCA::spatpca

We add a candidate set of tau2 to see how SpatPCA obtain a localized smoothe pattern.

Compare SpatPCA with PCA

The following figure shows that SpatPCA can find sparser pattern than PCA, which is close to the true pattern.