Geostatistics With Applications In Earth Sciences, Second Edition

Geostatistics with Applications .In Earth Sciences Seco nd Ed it ion Geostatistics with Applications • In Earth Sciences Second Edition By D.O. Sarma Formerly at Nationa l Geoph ysical Research Institute (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) Hyderabad, India ~ Springer tP A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 978-1-4020-9 379-1 (HB) Additional material to this bookcan be downloaded from http://extras.springer.com. ISBN 978- 1-4020-9380-7 (e-book) Copublished by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands with Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, India. Sold and distributed in North, Central and South America by Springer, 233 Spring Street, New York 10013, USA. In all other countries, exce pt India, sold and distributed by Springer, Haberstrasse 7, 0 -69126 Heidelberg, Germany. In India, sold and distributed by Capital Publishing Company, 7/28, Mahaveer Street, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi, 110 002, India. www.springer.com Printed on acid-free paper All Rights Reserved © 2009 Capital Publishing Compa ny No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed in India. In memory of My Parents Preface to the Second Edition Geostatistics is expanding very fast: concept- and technique-wi se. Keeping in view the importan ce of the subject, it was thought approp riate to bring out the second edition of this book . In this process, Chapter I has been expanded incorporating more detail s on sampling and sampling designs. In Chapter 2, a section on simulation has been introduced with emphasis on Mont e-Carlo simulation with worked out examples. In Chapter 5, a procedure to compute variogram in the case of irregular grid has been outlin ed. Minor modific ation s have been made in all other chapters. A new chapter on Introduction to Advan ced Geostat istics has been introduced with discussions on unive rsal kriging , disjunctive kriging, cond itional simulation and median polish kriging. Review Questions are given at the end of each chapter to facilitate a bette r under stand ing of the subject by the student/practitioner. The software codes are put in a CD for convenience of the students/practitoner of geostatistics. A few add itions have been made in the bibl iog raphy making it mo re exhaustive. This contains references to the concepts and method s presented, in-depth treatm ent of related topics and possible extensions . My grateful thank s are due to Dr. B.S. Saini , Principal , Guru Nanak Engg . College, Hyderab ad for very helpful support. I hope that this edition will be a welcom e one. August 2008