Géostatistik maké téori proses stokastik jeung kasimpulan statistik keur nalungtik fénoménagéografi. Géostatistik geus ilahar digunakeun dina widang géo-sciences. métodeu  Géostatistik ogé dipaké di geologi minyak, hidrogeologi, meteorologi, oseanografi, geokimia, kahutanan, kontrol lingkungan, ekologi lanskap, pertanian (hususna keur kacocogan tatanen) jeung sajabana.

Konsép dasar géostatistik nyaéta yén skala mangrupa variasi spasial. Data spasial "terikat" nunjukkeun yén variabiliti hampir sarua "tanpa" ningali lokasi titik data. Sanajan kitu, data spatial dina sababaraha kasus lain mangrupa data "terikat". Nilai data nu mana raket sacara spatial mibanda "variabiliti" anu saeutik dibandingkeun jeung nilai nu mana leuwih jauh antara hiji kanu séjénna. Sifat pola ieu béda-béda tina hiji susunan data ka susunan data nu séjénna; unggal susunan data mibanda fungsi nu "unik" sarta jarak antara dua titik data. Variabilitas ieu ilaharna diitung salaku fungsi nu disebut  semivarian.

Spatial autocorrelation bisa diitung ngagunakeun correlograms, covariance functions jeung variograms (=semivariograms).

Topik anu aya hubunganna: statistik, géologi, GIS, remote sensing, kriging

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Tempo ogé
 statistik
 géologi
 geodemographic segmentation
 geographic information system (GIS)
 remote sensing
 kriging
 pedometrics

Tumbu kaluar 

Kriging link, contains explanations of variance in geostats
Arizona university geostats page
A resource on the internet about geostatistics and spatial statistics
 On-Line Library that chronicles Matheron's journey from classical statistics to the new science of geostatistics
 A website that criticizes Matheronian geostatistics 

Élmu bumi
Statistika