In 1962, G. Matheron introduced the term geostatistics to describe a scientific approach to evaluate problems in geology and mining, from ore reserve estimation to grade control. Geostatistics provides statistical methods used to describe spatial relationships among sample data and to apply this analysis to the prediction of spatial and temporal phenomena. They are used to explain spatial patte...

Sporisorium reilianum has caused significant economical damages in Mexico, in temperate and relatively dry areas, where maize is cultivated. The knowledge about the spatial distribution of this pathogen is basic to elaborate integrated management programs, and precise and eff icient the development of sampling methods and control techniques. Unfortunately, in Mexico there are no studies on spat...

spatiality assessment of groundwater pollution is very important to determine water quality condition, pollution sources and management decisions. in this case, gis and geostatistics methods can be useful tools. spatiality of groundwater quality parameters, in relation with various land uses, can be very extremely. therefore water samples from 52 wells in the kurdan area were analyzed in this s...

Geostatistical techniques have gained widespread use in ecology and environmental science. Variograms are commonly used to describe and examine spatial autocorrelation, and kriging has become the method of choice for interpolating spatially-autocorrelated variables. To date, most applications of geostatistics have defined the separation between sample points using simple Euclidean distance. In ...

The spatial distribution characteristics of six heavy metals and metalloid in soil of Zhuji Lipu copper mining area, Zhejiang Province, was studied by using geostatistics approaches combined with GIS. These elements included Pb, As, Cr, Cu, Zn and Ni. The statistical analyses showed that concentrations of these elements were lognormal distribution. Concentrations of Pb, As, Cu, Zn and Ni were s...