Course: Geostatistic

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Course title Geostatistic
Course code KGI/4GSTA
Organizational form of instruction Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Popelka Jan, Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Methods of exploratory spatial data analysis. Basic terminology. Sampling. Geostatistical measures of location. Geostatistical measures of variability. Geostatistical measures of shape. 2. Methods of exploratory spatial data analysis. Data distribution (normality). Data transformation. Global and local outliers. Clusters (Moran?s I, Geary?s c, Gettis-Ord G, Hot-Spot analysis, Z-Score). Trend analysis, 3. Spatial interpolation. Basic concepts. Nearest Neighbor. Natural Neighbor. Triangulated irregular network (TIN). Global polynomial interpolation. Local polynomial interpolation. Geographically weighted mean interpolation. Geographically weighted median interpolation. Inverse distance weighted interpolation (IDW). Spline interpolation. Radial basis functions interpolation (RBF). 4. Structural analysis. Semivariogram. Theoretical models of semivariogram. Anisothropy. Geostatistical methods of interpolation. Kriging. Types of Kriging (Ordinary Kriging, Indicator Kriging, Simple Kriging, Probability Kriging, Co-Kriging). Model verification. Comparison of alternative models.

Learning activities and teaching methods
  • unspecified - 4 hours per semester
Recommended literature
  • Johnston, K., Ver Hoef, J. M., Krivoruchko, K., Lucas, N. Using ArcGIS? Geostatistical Analyst. ESRI Press, 2001.
  • Lloyd, Ch. D. Local models for spatial analysis. 2nd ed.. CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4398-2919-6.
  • Popelka. J. Geostatistika. E-learningový kurz..
  • Popelka, J., Synek, V. Úvod do statistické analýzy dat. FŽP, Ústí nad Labem, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7414-117-1.
  • Schejbal, C. Úvod do geostatistiky. Ostrava, 1996. ISBN 80-7078-325-7.


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