@CONFERENCE\{IMM2000-03639, author = "A. A. Nielsen and K. Conradsen and J. L. Pedersen and A. Steenfelt", title = "Maximum Autocorrelation Factorial Kriging", year = "2000", month = "apr", pages = "538-547", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 6th International Geostatistics Congress, Geostats 2000", volume = "", series = "Technical University of Denmark", editor = "W.J. Kleingeld and D.G. Krige", publisher = "", organization = "", address = "Richard Petersens Plads, Building 321", url = "http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/pubdb/pubs/3639-full.html", abstract = "This paper describes maximum autocorrelation factor (MAF) analysis, maximum autocorrelation factorial kriging, and its application to irregularly sampled stream sediment geochemical data from South Greenland. Kriged {MAF} images are compared with kriged images of varimax rotated factors from an ordinary non-spatial factor analysis, and they are interpreted in a geological context. It is demonstrated that {MAF} analysis contrary to ordinary non-spatial factor analysis gives an objective discrimination of largescale as well as small-scale geological features which are related to crustal structure and the occurrence of specific rock types." }