A Probability Conditioning Method (PCM) for Nonlinear Flow Data Integration into Multipoint Statistical Facies Simulation

Mathematical Geosciences

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 133-164

  Jafarpour, Behnam ^a   Khodabakhshi, Morteza ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensemble Kalman filter; Facies characterization; Flow data integration; Multipoint geostatistics; Probability map

Indexed keywords

DATA INTEGRATION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; GEOLOGIC MODELS; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; KALMAN FILTERS; STATISTICS;

CORRELATION STRUCTURE; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; GEOSTATISTICAL MODELING; MEASUREMENT LOCATIONS; MULTI-POINT GEOSTATISTICS; PROBABILISTIC KNOWLEDGE; PROBABILITY MAPS; STRUCTURAL CONNECTIVITY;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ALGORITHM; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA INVERSION; FACIES ANALYSIS; GEOSTATISTICS; KALMAN FILTER; MAP GENERALIZATION; MODELING; PROBABILITY;

EID: 78751645996     PISSN: 18748961     EISSN: 18748953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11004-011-9316-y     Document Type: Article

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