STK_EXAMPLE_KB06 Ordinary kriging VS kriging with a linear trend The same dataset is analyzed using two variants of kriging. The left panel shows the result of ordinary kriging, in other words, Gaussian process interpolation assuming a constant (but unknown) mean. The right panel shows the result of adding a linear trend in the mean of the Gaussian process. The difference with the left plot is clear in extrapolation: the first predic- tor exhibits a "mean reverting" behaviour, while the second one captures an increasing trend in the data.