Multiple-point Geostatistics: Stochastic Modeling with Training Images

Multiple-point Geostatistics: Stochastic Modeling with Training Images

Volumn 9781118662755, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-364

  Mariethoz, Gregoire ^a   Caers, Jef ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; MINERAL RESOURCES;

BASIC BUILDING BLOCK; INVERSE MODELLING; MULTIPLE-POINT GEOSTATISTICS; PHYSICAL MODELLING; RANDOM FUNCTIONS; RESERVOIR MODELLING; SPATIAL CONTINUITY; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DATA;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

EID: 84923257395     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118662953     Document Type: Book

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