Ebook: Geostatistics for the Next Century: An International Forum in Honour of Michel David’s Contribution to Geostatistics, Montreal, 1993

To honour the remarkable contribution of Michel David in the inception, establishment and development of Geostatistics, and to promote the essence of his work, an international Forum entitled Geostatistics for the Next Century was convened in Montreal in June 1993. In order to enhance communication and stimulate geostatistical innovation, research and development, the Forum brought together world leading researchers and practitioners from five continents, who discussed-debated current problems, new technologies and futuristic ideas. This volume contains selected peer-reviewed papers from the Forum, together with comments by participants and replies by authors. Although difficult to capture the spontaneity and range of a debate, comments and replies should further assist in the promotion of ideas, dialogue and criticism, and are consistent with the spirit of the Forum. The contents of this volume are organized following the Forum's thematic sessions. The role of theme sessions was not only to stress important topics of tOday but in addition, to emphasize common ground held among diverse areas of geostatistical work and the need to strengthen communication between these areas. For this reason, any given section of this book may include papers from theory to applications, in mining, petroleum, environment, geohydrology, image processing.

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This book contains selected contributions from the International Forum on `Geostatistics for the Next Century', organized in honour of Michel David in Montreal, June 1993. In order to present current problems and concerns, disseminate new significant results and futuristic ideas, as well as to promote dialogue and critique, the book includes contributions from leading researchers and practitioners as well as comments by participants and replies by authors.
Notable new advances and ideas featured in this volume include: developments in dealing with uncertainty, advances in sampling, fuzzy set and Bayesian frameworks, fractal and multifractal approaches, neural network based simulation, optimization based conditional simulations, spatiotemporal modelling, issues of support change and upscaling, new stochastic fluid flow related formulations.
For researchers and practitioners working in quantitative modelling in earth sciences and engineering, including mining, petroleum, environmental sciences, hydrogeology, geotechnics, applied statistics and renewable resources.