area-to-point Kriging for spatial non-temporal data

[nikosGeography]

Hi, I'm relatively new to geostatistics so I apologize in advance for my question. I was wondering if the package offers the option for area-to-point Kriging (ATPK) for non-temporal data. From the documentation I saw that for spatio-temporal data there is the function vgmAreaST. For spatial non-temporal data, the vgmArea computes point-point, point-area or area-area variogram values from point model, meaning there is no area-to-point function?

I am aware of the atakrig package where I can perform ATPK but I was wondering if gstat has that option as well.

Thank you.

[edzer]

Not really; there's a demo script that does something here, but it doesn't do for instance point variogram estimation from area data.

[nikosGeography]

Thank you for your prompt response. Is ATPK something that you would like to implement in the near future? I mean for non-temporal data.

[edzer]

It would be nice to have, and possibly low hanging fruit, but for me personally a low priority.

[nikosGeography]

I see... Should I close the issue or leave it open in case someone is interested to implement it?