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Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis, 14:3 (2001), 249-255. APPROXIMATING A HARMONIZABLE ISOTROPIC RANDOM FIELD1 RANDALL J. SWIFT Western Kentucky University Department of Mathematics Bowling Green, KY 42101 USA E-mail: randall.swift@ (Received June, 1999; Revised June, 2000) The class of harmonizable fields is a natural extension of the class of sta- tionary fields. This paper considers a stochastic series approximation of a harmonizable isotropic random field. This approximation is useful for numerical simulation of such a field. Key words: Harmonizable Random Field, Isotropy. AMS subject classifications: 60G12, 60G35. 1. Introduction In recent years the study of harmonizable processes has played a central role in the development of the theory of nonstationary processes. Crucial to this development is the pioneering work of Chang and Rao [1] on bimeasures and Morse-Transue integration. Their paper set the stage for the recent advances in the theory. A recent account of the development of harmonizable processes and some of their applications may be found in Swift [5]. That paper also contains a detailed bibliography of the existing work on harmonizable processes. In this paper, a stochastic series approximation of a harmonizable isotropic random field is considered. 2. Background Let (a,Z,P) be a probability space. For p _ 1, define L(P) to be the set of all centered complex valued f E LP(f, E, P), that is E(f) 0, where E(f) fnf(co)dP(w)is the expectation. We will consider second order random fields, more specifically, mappings X:Nn--Lg(P). 1Presented at the Fifth