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Enhanced Geologic Modeling with Data-Driven Training Images for Improved Resources and Recoverable Reserves
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Deterministic geologic modeling methods accurately characterize large-scale continuous features of geological phenomena, but often fail in reproducing their inherent short-scale variability. The opposite is the case with stochastic methods that lack large-scale continuity yet contain reasonable...
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Data Driven Decisions of Stationarity for Improved Numerical Modeling in Geological Environments
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Generating representative models of geological domains is critical for decision making and process optimization in natural resource exploitation. Partitioning geological datasets is an important step undertaken early in geostatistical analysis to ensure that subsequent modeling stages consider...
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Fall 2016
Grade control establishes the final destinations for mined material (plant, stockpile, waste dump, etc.) at the time of mining. Correct decisions bring profit to a mining company while incorrect decisions bring losses. There are several potential sources of misclassification of mined material: i)...
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Fall 2010
Improved numerical reservoir models are constructed when all available diverse data sources are accounted for to the maximum extent possible. Integrating various diverse data is not a simple problem because data show different precision and relevance to the primary variables being modeled,...
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Spring 2015
Evaluating the process performance of mining and petroleum operations requires numerical geological models of many related rock properties or variables. Taken together, they provide a characterization of the geologic deposit that forms the basis for engineering design and decision making. Complex...
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Advances in Kriging-Based Modelling Approaches of Winter Weather Vehicular Collisions – A Region-Wide Geostatistical Investigation
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The winter season is known for brisk cold weather and beautiful snowfalls, but it is also known for deteriorated driving conditions to where the risk of collisions becomes a major issue that plagues many municipalities around the world. As such, agencies are tasked with and strive to prioritize...
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Multivariate Geostatistical Prediction of Geochemical Measurements for Use in Mineral Prospectivity Modeling
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Traditional approaches to mineral exploration rely on personal experience, conceptual genetic models, past exploration data, and geological characteristics found in analogous target deposit types to locate and evaluate prospective areas. With the increase in both size and complexity of datasets...
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Analyzing Scaling Characteristics of Transport Properties Using Particle-Tracking Based Techniques
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Appropriate scale-up provides a critical link between fine-scale heterogeneity descriptions and coarse-scale models used for transport modeling, which is essential for planning and management of subsurface reservoirs. A significant challenge in subsurface flow and transport modeling is to develop...
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Integration of 4D Seismic Data in Reservoir Characterization with Facies Parameter Uncertainty
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Reservoir exploration and production are always conducted in presence of geological uncertainty that is an inevitable result of incomplete data and heterogeneity at all scales. Modeling subsurface geology based on limited data is subject to uncertainty and its accurate assessment plays a key role...
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Fall 2011
This dissertation proposes an improved facies modelling methodology that involves a new geological spatial characterization tool, a geological based spatial distance calculation, and a theoretically sound conditional probability calculation. The full set of bivariate probabilities are proposed...