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This chapter presents geostatistical characterizations of geospatial data, focusing on the description of the spatial continuity/discontinuity of reservoir properties using variogram, covariance or correlation function. Other geostatistical methods used for modeling reservoir properties are presented in Chaps. 16, 17 and 18.
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Ma, Y.Z. (2019). Geostatistical Variography for Geospatial Variables. In: Quantitative Geosciences: Data Analytics, Geostatistics, Reservoir Characterization and Modeling. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17860-4_13
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