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The family of models explored utilises a class of transformation functions known as Tukey g-and-h transformations to create a family of warped spatial Gaussian process models which can support various desirable features such as flexible marginal distributions, which can be skewed, leptokurtic and\/or heavy-tailed. The resulting model is widely applicable in a range of spatial field reconstruction applications. To utilise the model in applications in practice, it is important to carefully characterise the statistical properties of the Tukey g-and-h random fields. In this work, we study both the properties of the resulting warped Gaussian processes as well as using the characterising statistical properties of the warped processes to obtain flexible spatial field reconstructions. In this regard we derive five different estimators for various important quantities often considered in spatial field reconstruction problems. These include the multi-point Minimum Mean Squared Error (MMSE) estimators, the multi-point Maximum A-Posteriori (MAP) estimators, an efficient class of multi-point linear estimators based on the Spatial-Best Linear Unbiased (S-BLUE) estimators, and two multi-point threshold exceedance based estimators, namely the Spatial Regional and Level Exceedance estimators. Simulation results and real data examples show the benefits of using the Tukey g-and-h transformation as opposed to standard Gaussian spatial random fields in a real data application for environmental monitoring.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e23101323","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,11]],"date-time":"2021-10-11T09:16:42Z","timestamp":1633943802000},"page":"1323","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Spatial Warped Gaussian Processes: Estimation and Efficient Field Reconstruction"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"Gareth W.","family":"Peters","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA"}]},{"given":"Ido","family":"Nevat","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"TUMCREATE, 1 Create Way, #10-02 CREATE Tower, Singapore 138602, Singapore"}]},{"given":"Sai Ganesh","family":"Nagarajan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Engineering Systems and Design Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), 8 Somapah Road, Singapore 487372, Singapore"}]},{"given":"Tomoko","family":"Matsui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Statistical Modeling, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM), 10-3 Midoricho, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-0014, Japan"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"177","DOI":"10.1016\/j.earscirev.2006.05.001","article-title":"Environmental sensor networks: A revolution in the earth system science?","volume":"78","author":"Hart","year":"2006","journal-title":"Earth-Sci. 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