“…Namely, since the initial work on spatial statistical models developed in Basu and Reinsel [3], Bhattacharyya, Khalil and Richardson [5], Güyon [17], Jain [20], Martin [21][22][23], and Tjostheim [30][31][32], the spatial series modeling framework has been widely considered in several applied elds such as geology, geophysics, biology, agriculture, spatial econometrics, image processing, etc. This framework is useful when data are collected on a regular grid.…”