A practical guide to geostatistical mapping / Практическое руководство по геостатистическому картографированию

This guide evolved from the materials that I have gathered over the years, mainly as lecture notes used for the 5–day training course GEOSTAT. This means that, in order to understand the structure of this book, it is important that you understand how the course evolved and how did the students respond to this process. The GEOSTAT training course was originally designed as a three–week block module with a balanced combination of theoretical lessons, hands on software training and self-study exercises. This obviously cannot work for PhD students and university assistants that have limited budgets, and increasingly limited time. What we offered instead is a concentrated soup — three weeks programme in a 5–day block, with one month to prepare. Of course, once the course starts, the soup is still really really salty. There are just too many things in too short time, so that many plates will typically be left unfinished, and a lot of food would have to be thrown away. Because the participants of GEOSTAT typically come from diverse backgrounds, you can never make them all happy. You can at least try to make the most people happy <...>