Kriging radio environment map construction

Sammanfattning: With the massive increase in usage of some parts of the electromagnetic spectrum during the last decades, the ability to create real time maps of signal coverage is now more important than ever before. This Masters project is designed to test two different methods of generating such maps with a one second limit to processing time. The interpolation methods under consideration are known as inverse distance weighting and kriging. Several different variants of kriging are considered and compared some of which were implemented specif cally for the project and one variant designed by a third party.The data used is acquired from an antenna array inside a laboratory room at LTU rather than being simulated. The data collection is done with the transmitter at several different positions in the room to make sure the interpolation works consistently. The results show only small differences in both the mean and median of the absolute error when comparing inverse distance weighting and kriging and the variations between transmitter positions are signifcant enough that no single variant is consistently the best using that metric. Using a resolution with 25cm2 pixel size there were no problems reaching significantly lower than the 1sec time limit. If the resolution is increased to apixel size of 1cm2 neither method is able to consistently update the map at the required pace. Kriging however showed that it can generate values outside the range of observed values which could make the extra effort required to implement it worth it since such a characteristic might be very useful for  finding the transmitter.