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Geostatistics

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 548-0143/01
Abbreviation GS
Course title Geostatistics
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Geoinformatics
Course coordinator Ing. Lucie Orlíková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction to geostatistics. Basic concepts. Spatial autocorrelation.
2. Random Function, Regionalized Variable.
3. Global and local interpolation techniques, exact and inexact interpolator. Deterministic methods.
4. Stationarity and intrinsic hypothesis. Basic geostatistical tool for measuring spatial autocorrelation of a regionalized variable.
5. Variogram. Experimental variogram. Range and anizotropy. Regularized and deregularized semivariogram model. Covariation.
6. Trends in geostatistics - polynomial, global, local.
7. Spatially continuous data analysis. Kriging. Simple, ordinary, universal kriging.
8. Spatially continuous data analysis. Indicator kriging, probability kriging.
9. Spatially continuous data analysis. Co-kriging.
10. Cross validation approaches. Error assessment.
11. Empirical Bayesian kriging.
12. Nonlinear kriging methods.
13. Geostatistic conditional simulation.

Literature

GRIFFITH, D. A. Spatial statistics and geostatistics. theory and applications for Geographic Information Science and Technology, 2013, London: Sage.
RIPLEY, B. D. Spatial statistics. 2004. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Interscience.
WEBSTER, R. a M. A. OLIVER. Geostatistics for environmental scientists. 2nd ed. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2007. xii, 315. ISBN 9780470028582 .
PYRCZ, M. J., DEUTSCH, C. V. Geostatistical reservoir modeling. 2014. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Advised literature

ISAAKS, E. H., SRIVASTAVA, R. M.Applied geostatistics. 2010. New York: Oxford University Press.
OLIVER, M. A., WEBSTER, R. Basic steps in geostatistics: The variogram and kriging. 2015. Cham: Springer.
WACKERNAGEL, H. Multivariate geostatistics: An introduction with applications. 2010. Berlin: Springer.
MONTERO, J. M., AVILÉS, G. F., MATEU, J. Spatial and spatio-temporal geostatistical modeling and kriging. 2015. Chichester: Wiley.