AI-GEOSTATS: Samples in a block

2001-08-28 Thread Mark Burnett Deelkraal
Hi all I have a number of questions to all out there..any help/ pointers would be appreciated. 1. What is the optimum number of samples in a block of any particular size? What I have been able to track down so far has not really been helpful, this includes comments like: Samples should be

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: Samples in a block

2001-08-28 Thread Isobel Clark
1. What is the optimum number of samples in a block of any particular size? Is there any way that I can work out the theoretical number of samples in an e.g. 30x30m block assuming some a priori information (gold deposit, high nugget of e.g. 1.2 e6, pop.var having the same type of

AI-GEOSTATS: Samples in a block

2001-08-28 Thread Jan-Willem van Groenigen
Hi Mark, it seems you have already realized the paradox of sampling in geostatistics: the more you know about the variable in question, the better you can optimize a sampling scheme for it. It isn't easy to break out of this paradox, and that's probably the reason that sampling has received