“…First, a spatial and statistical representation is achieved, which is based on a Karhunen-Loève (KL) expansion. This very efficient method, which has first been introduced by Pearson [8] in data analysis, has been applied in many works for the last decades (see, for instance [9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27]). It is indeed particularly interesting as it allows the uncorrelation of the projection coefficients of X on the KL vector basis, while optimally compacting the signal energy.…”