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May 1, 1990
Review of Geostatistics in Geohydrology. I: Basic Concepts
Author: The ASCE Task Committee on Geostatistical Techniques in Geohydrology of the Ground Water Hydrology Committee of the ASCE Hydraulics DivisionAuthor Affiliations
Publication: Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Volume 116, Issue 5
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Geostatistics offers a variety of tools that can be used in ground‐water estimation problems, including interpolation, integration, and differentiation. This paper introduces the basic concepts of geostatistics and its proposed linear and nonlinear estimation (kriging) techniques. These techniques view a regionalized variable as one of many possible outcomes of a random function. The spatial variability of the natural phenomenon is characterized by covariance or semivariogram functions, which are the central elements in the estimation techniques, known as simple kriging, ordinary kriging, universal kriging, log‐kriging, disjunctive kriging, and indicator kriging. The paper also discusses techniques that have been developed to infer the statistical structure of the variables of interest.
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