Overview
- Second edition with new chapters on temporal and point uncertainty modeling, sampling and deterministic modeling
- Examines spatial probablistic, statistical and stochastic techniques
- Brings together information not previously published in one source
- Investigates major problems in spatial analysis and modeling Provides methodology for the treatment of spatial data through simple software programs
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This is a revised and updated second edition, including new chapters on temporal and point uncertainty model, as well as on sampling and deterministic modeling. It is a comprehensive presentation of spatial modeling techniques used in the earth sciences, outlining original techniques developed by the author. Data collection in the earth sciences is difficult and expensive, but simple, rational and logical approaches help the reader to appreciate the fundamentals of advanced methodologies. It requires special care to gather accurate geological, hydrogeological, meteorological and hydrological information all with risk assessments. Spatial simulation methodologies in the earth sciences are essential, then, if we want to understand the variability in features such as fracture frequencies, rock quality, and grain size distribution in rock and porous media. This book outlines in a detailed yet accessible way the main spatial modeling techniques, in particular the Kriging methodology. It also presents many unique physical approaches, field cases, and sample interpretations.
Since Kriging’s origin in the 1960s it has been developed into a number of new methods such as cumulative SV (CSV), point CSV (PCSV), and spatial dependence function, which have been applied in different aspects of the earth sciences. Each one of these techniques is explained in this book, as well as how they are used to model earth science phenomena such as geology, earthquakes, meteorology, and hydrology. In addition to Kriging and its variants, several alternatives to Kriging methodology are presented and the necessary steps in their applications are clearly explained. Simple spatial variation prediction methodologies are also revised with up-to-date literature, and the ways in which they relate to more advanced spatial modeling methodologies are explained.
The book is a valuable resource for students, researchers and professionals of a broad range of disciplines including geology, geography, hydrology, meteorology, environment, image processing, spatial modeling and related topics.
Keywords »Data mining - Geo-statistics - Kriging - Regional uncertainty - Spatial dependence - Spatial modeling - geographic data - geoscience - hydrology - image processing
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Book Title: Spatial Modeling Principles in Earth Sciences
Authors: Zekai Sen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41758-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-41756-1Published: 12 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82421-5Published: 16 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-41758-5Published: 04 October 2016
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XII, 413
Number of Illustrations: 212 b/w illustrations
Topics: Quantitative Geology, Simulation and Modeling, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography