Geological and Geostatistical Modelling

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General characterization

Code

13217

Credits

6.0

Responsible teacher

José António de Almeida, Maria da Graça Azevedo de Brito

Hours

Weekly - 4

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Teaching language

Português

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Subject matter

Georeferenced data. Spatial resolution. Geographical reference systems. Scales. Types of data. Acquisition of data with GPS. Graphical representation of geographic data. Works on plants: estimates of distances, areas and volumes. Fundamentals of remote sensing and photogrammetry. Geographic Information Systems. Vector structure. Matrix structure. Initiation of projects. Editing of data. Relationship Operators. Spatial analysis. Digital terrain models. TIN Structure. Attribute calculation. Preparation of reports. Introduction to quality analysis of spatial data. Geostatistics. Calculation of experimental variograms. Adjustment of theoretical models. Isotropy and anisotropy. Estimation by simple kriging and normal kriging. Validation of estimates. Drawing plans for sampling for spatial data. Practice with the ARCGIS and R software. Resolution of practical exercises in computer on geo-referenced and geostatistical information.

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