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Title: Special Issue: Geostatistics and Machine Learning

Abstract

Abstract Recent years have seen a steady growth in the number of papers that apply machine learning methods to problems in the earth sciences. Although they have different origins, machine learning and geostatistics share concepts and methods. For example, the kriging formalism can be cast in the machine learning framework of Gaussian process regression. Machine learning, with its focus on algorithms and ability to seek, identify, and exploit hidden structures in big data sets, is providing new tools for exploration and prediction in the earth sciences. Geostatistics, on the other hand, offers interpretable models of spatial (and spatiotemporal) dependence. This special issue on Geostatistics and Machine Learning aims to investigate applications of machine learning methods as well as hybrid approaches combining machine learning and geostatistics which advance our understanding and predictive ability of spatial processes.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR); National Science Foundation (NSF); US Army Research Office (ARO)
OSTI Identifier:
1855870
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1976696
Grant/Contract Number:  
Subcontract 382247; W911NF-15-1-0562; SC0021142; DMS-1555072, DMS-1736364; CMMI-1634832; CMMI-1560834; 382247
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Mathematical Geosciences
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Mathematical Geosciences Journal Volume: 54 Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 1874-8961
Publisher:
Springer Science + Business Media
Country of Publication:
Netherlands
Language:
English
Subject:
58 GEOSCIENCES; 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; Geology; Mathematics; Geostatistics; Statistical learning; Machine learning; Spatial process; Gaussian process regression

Citation Formats

De Iaco, Sandra, Hristopulos, Dionissios T., and Lin, Guang. Special Issue: Geostatistics and Machine Learning. Netherlands: N. p., 2022. Web. doi:10.1007/s11004-022-09998-6.
De Iaco, Sandra, Hristopulos, Dionissios T., & Lin, Guang. Special Issue: Geostatistics and Machine Learning. Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11004-022-09998-6
De Iaco, Sandra, Hristopulos, Dionissios T., and Lin, Guang. Mon . "Special Issue: Geostatistics and Machine Learning". Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11004-022-09998-6.
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abstractNote = {Abstract Recent years have seen a steady growth in the number of papers that apply machine learning methods to problems in the earth sciences. Although they have different origins, machine learning and geostatistics share concepts and methods. For example, the kriging formalism can be cast in the machine learning framework of Gaussian process regression. Machine learning, with its focus on algorithms and ability to seek, identify, and exploit hidden structures in big data sets, is providing new tools for exploration and prediction in the earth sciences. Geostatistics, on the other hand, offers interpretable models of spatial (and spatiotemporal) dependence. This special issue on Geostatistics and Machine Learning aims to investigate applications of machine learning methods as well as hybrid approaches combining machine learning and geostatistics which advance our understanding and predictive ability of spatial processes.},
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journal = {Mathematical Geosciences},
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year = {Mon Mar 21 00:00:00 EDT 2022},
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