Conditional co-simulation of continuous and categorical variables for geostatistical applications

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1234-1246

  Emery, Xavier ^a   Silva, Daniel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Gaussian random field; Geological control; Multi Gaussian model; Plurigaussian model; Rock types; Soft boundaries

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN RANDOM FIELD; GEOLOGICAL CONTROL; MULTI-GAUSSIAN MODEL; PLURIGAUSSIAN MODEL; ROCK TYPES; SOFT BOUNDARIES;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; LITHOLOGY; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

TRELLIS CODES;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA MINING; DATA SET; GAUSSIAN METHOD; GEOSTATISTICS;

EID: 64949138366     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2008.07.005     Document Type: Article

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