Identifying spatial heterogeneity of coal resource quality in a multilayer coal deposit by multivariate geostatistics

International Journal of Coal Geology

Volumn 73, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 307-330

  Heriawan, Mohamad Nur ^a,b   Koike, Katsuaki ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BANDUNG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Coal quality; Factorial cokriging; Linear coregionalization model; Ordinary cokriging; Ordinary kriging; Seam thickness

Indexed keywords

FACTORIAL COKRIGING; LINEAR COREGIONALIZATION MODEL; ORDINARY KRIGING;

COAL ASH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SODIUM; STATISTICS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SULFUR;

COAL DEPOSITS;

COAL RANK; COAL SEAM; CORRELATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DIAGENESIS; GEOSTATISTICS; HETEROGENEITY; KRIGING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SYNCLINE; VARIOGRAM;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDONESIA; KALIMANTAN; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 38049039330     PISSN: 01665162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coal.2007.07.005     Document Type: Article

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