Plurigau: A computer program for simulating spatial facies using the truncated plurigaussian method

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 123-141

  Dowd, P A ^a   Pardo Iguzquiza E ^a   Xu, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Categorical variable; Gaussian random field; Geostatistics; Indicator cross semi variogram; Indicator semi variogram; Sequential Gaussian simulation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGY;

FACIES;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

ALGORITHM; FACIES; GEOSTATISTICS; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL DATA; VARIOGRAM;

EID: 0242416591     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-3004(02)00070-5     Document Type: Article

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