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Two problems related to a groundwater study are faced in this paper: mapping piezometric values and forecasting the aquifer behaviuor. To solve the first problem, a new geostatistical methodology is proposed based on a standard geostatistical structural analysis and the automatic fitting of the generalised covariance model. For forecasting, a geostatistical approach based on ordinary and disjunctive cokriging has been developed to solve two basic problems: infilling the piezometric time series at unsampled points and prediction to take account of the time dependence between rainfall and piezometriy.
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Ribeiro, L.T., Muge, F.H. (1989). A Geostatistical Approach to the Modelling of a Piezometric Field. In: Armstrong, M. (eds) Geostatistics. Quantitative Geology and Geostatistics, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-6844-9_51
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