Geostatistics for Water Resources and Environmental Science
For whom?
hydrologists, geoscientists, ecologists, MSc, PhD students with an interest in capacity building in spatiotemporal data analysis
Prerequisites
Preferable knowledge of basic statistics, matrix algebra.
Dates, Fee, ECTS
Start: 04 October 2021
End: 15 October 2021
Deadline IHE application: 03 September 2021 - 23.59 (CET)
Course fee: € 2000
Start: 19 September 2022
End: 30 September 2022
Deadline IHE application: 18 August 2022 - 23.59 (CET)
Course fee: € 2000
VAT is not included in the course fee
Learning objectives
Upon completion, the participant should be able to:
- Perform proper and efficient sample statistical assessment and to statistically characterize spatially referenced data
- Know the advantages and disadvantages of stochastic and deterministic geostatistical techniques and to appropriately select and apply the right geostatistical approaches
- Apply effective quantitative analysis of spatial and spatio-temporal data
- Work with real hydrological data and produce efficient and useful maps
- Work comfortably in R programming environment for statistics
- Should be able to choose and describe adequate spatial and spatiotemporal continuity models (variograms) for different applications