April 20, 2016 - April 22, 2016 | Vancouver, Canada
InfoMine Inc., Suite 640 - 580 Hornby Street
Summary
Practical Geostatistics: as the name suggests, this course takes interested students from no knowledge of statistics or geostatistics to understanding the mysteries of ordinary kriging and its variants in 24 hours. This is a classroom course and includes manual exercises to reinforce understanding of the techniques.
This course is three days long, and composed of lectures augmented by practical PC/laptop-based exercises covering many different applications. This course is designed to complement the EduMine online course and access to EduMine is provided as part of the registration.
Geostatistics is the name given to a particular group of techniques which model spatial processes and allow estimation of values at unsampled locations. Geostatistical estimation is a two stage process:
- studying the gathered data to establish the predictability of values from place to place in the study area; and
- estimating values at those locations which have not been sampled. This process is known as 'kriging'.
In mining, geostatistics is extensively used in the field of reserve valuation - the estimation of grades and other parameters from a relatively small set of borehole or other samples. Originally developed in mining, geostatistics is now widely used in many other fields. Obviously there are geological and geographical applications. However, the techniques are also used in such diverse fields as hydrology, ground water and air pollution, soil science and agriculture, forestry, epidemiology and weather prediction.
This course is aimed at any professionals dealing with the estimation from or interpolation between samples collected on a spatial basis. This is not a course for specialist geostatisticians but intended rather for those who wish to use geostatistics to enhance their practical applications or research.
No prior knowledge of statistics or geostatistics is assumed. A minimum of mathematics is necessary to explain the techniques - mainly simple algebra, up to understanding the concepts behind solving simple sets of simultaneous equations and differentiating x². Questions and discussions are actively encouraged and, indeed, form the basis of a successful course.
Participants are advised to bring a laptop computer.
People interested in this course may also want to register for Mineral Resource Estimation, scheduled to run in the same week.
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Contact Information:
EduMine - Practical Geostatistics
Sandra Wunsch, Educational Events Manager
Suite 900, 580 Hornby Street
Vancouver
Canada
Phone: +1 604 683 2037
Fax: +1 604 681 4166
Email: edumine-support@infomine.com
Website: http://www.edumine.com/
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