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‎Modeling and efficient estimation of the trend function is of great importance in the estimation of variogram and prediction of spatial data. In this article, the support vector regression method is used to model the trend function. Then the data is de-trended and the estimation of variogram and prediction is done. On a real data set, the prediction results obtained from the proposed method have been compared with Spline and kriging prediction methods through cross-validation.  The criterion for choosing the appropriate method for prediction is to minimize the root mean square of the error. The prediction results for several positions with known values were left out of the data set (for some reason) and were obtained for new positions. The results show the high accuracy of prediction (for all positions and elimination positions) with the proposed method compared to kriging and spline.

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In the time series analysis, we may encounter situations where some elements of the model are imprecise quantities. One of the most common situations is the inaccuracy of the underlying observations, usually due to measurement or human errors. In this paper, a new fuzzy autoregressive time series model based on the support vector machine approach is proposed. For this purpose, the kernel function has been used for the stability and flexibility of the model, and the constraints included in the model have been used to control the points. In order to examine the performance and effectiveness of the proposed fuzzy autoregressive time series model, some goodness of fit criteria are used. The results were based on one example of simulated fuzzy time series data and two real examples, which showed that the proposed method performed better than other existing methods.