Geostatistics for Natural Resources Evaluation

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Oxford University Press, 1997 - Mathematics - 483 pages
This text fulfills a need for an advanced-level work covering both the theory and application of geostatistics. It covers the most important areas of geostatistical methodology, introducing tools for description, quantitative modeling of spatial continuity, spatial prediction, and assessment of local uncertainty and stochastic simulation. It also details the theoretical background underlying most GSLIB programs. The tools are applied to an environmental data set, but the book includes a general presentation of algorithms intended for students and practitioners in such diverse fields as soil science, mining, petroleum, remote sensing, hydrogeology, and the environmental sciences.

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Contents

Introduction
3
Inference and modeling
75
Accounting for a single attribute
125
Accounting for secondary information
185
Assessment of spatial uncertainty
369
Summary
437
Appendixes
443
The Jura data
457
Bibliography
465
Index
477
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About the author (1997)

Dr. Pierre Goovaerts is a senior research assistant at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research and is currently affiliated with the Universite Catholique de Louvain in Belgium, where he earned his Ph.D. in agricultural sciences. Prior to that, he was postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Environmental and Ecological Sciences at Stanford University.

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