Geostatistical Integration & Calibration of Seismic, Geophysical & Core Data

The Geostatistics Group at the University of Adelaide is an established research group with an active research portfolio funded by research council and industrial grants. It also delivers a Master of Geostatistics programme and various short courses and Continuing Professional Development programmes in geostatistics with applications to ore reserve estimation, geological modelling and environmental modelling and prediction.

This website describes the output and results from a UK Engineering and Phyisical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)-funded research project on Geostatistical calibration and integration of seismic, geophysical and core data EPSRC grant number GR/M72944/01. £132k ($AU330k).

Outputs described here include:

• Connectivity analysis of 3D random set models
• Data fusion by geostatistical simulation
• Empirical Maximum Likelihood Kriging
• Estimation of boundary surfaces from 3D seismic data using neural nets and geostatistics
• Factorial cokriging
• Geostatistical characterization of 3D spatial heterogeneity of rock properties
• Geostatistical integration of primary and secondary data for stochastic petrophysical models
• Incorporation of model uncertainty in simulation
• Maximum likelihood inference of spatial covariance parameters
• Normality tests for spatially correlated data
• Optimal signal reconstruction from secondary information: application to core-log integration
• Parametric inference of indicator variograms
• Plurigaussian simulation
• Second-order stationary universal kriging
• Simulation of intrinsic random functions of order k
• Optimal sampling augmentation