Citation Overview

The Citation Program in Applied Geostatistics program (CPAG) is designed to assist mining and petroleum engineers and geoscientists better pinpoint the resource bodies for which they search. This program fills an important niche between the conventional one-week short course and the two-year Masters degree program in the Faculty of Engineering. It is ideally suited to those from industry who seek a more in depth understanding of modern geostatistical tools.

• communicate the place of geostatistical models of heterogeneity and uncertainty in modern resource/reserve evaluation,
• explain geostatistical concepts and tools
• apply simulation / uncertainty management concepts

These objectives are met through classroom instruction, tutoring, and self-study. In addition to prepared assignments, each participant will undertake a realistic mini-project using their own data (if available) or provided data.

The main topics include:

• geologic rock types and stochastic modeling
• trends and non-stationarity
• variograms for spatial continuity modeling
• kriging for optimal estimation of resources
• simulation for uncertainty quantification
• multivariate modeling
• decision making in presence of uncertainty