Geostatistical and Geospatial Approaches for the Characterization of Natural Resources in the Environment, 1st ed. 2016 Challenges, Processes and Strategies

These proceedings of the IAMG 2014 conference in New Delhi explore the current state of the art and inform readers about the latest geostatistical and space-based technologies for assessment and management in the contexts of natural resource exploration, environmental pollution, hazards and natural disaster research. The proceedings cover 3D visualization, time-series analysis, environmental geochemistry, numerical solutions in hydrology and hydrogeology, geotechnical engineering, multivariate geostatistics, disaster management, fractal modeling, petroleum exploration, geoinformatics, sedimentary basin analysis, spatiotemporal modeling, digital rock geophysics, advanced mining assessment and glacial studies, and range from the laboratory to integrated field studies.

Mathematics plays a key part in the crust, mantle, oceans and atmosphere, creating climates that cause natural disasters, and influencing fundamental aspects of life-supporting systems and many other geological processes affecting Planet Earth. As such, it is essential to understand the synergy between the classical geosciences and mathematics, which can provide the methodological tools needed to tackle complex problems in modern geosciences.

The development of science and technology, transforming from a descriptive stage to a more quantitative stage, involves qualitative interpretations such as conceptual models that are complemented by quantification, e.g. numerical models, fast dynamic geologic models, deterministic and stochastic models. Due to the increasing complexity of the problems faced by today?s geoscientists, joint efforts to establish new conceptual and numerical models and develop new paradigms are called for.

Welcome Message for IAMG2014 Participants in New Delhi 

Foreword

Mathematical Geosciences and Geostatistics

Singularity-Based Geo-Information Extraction for Characterizing Mineralization-Associated Geological Processes in Gejiu Mineral District, China

Compositionally Compliant Contact Analysis 

Kernel Principal Component Analysis in the Application of Geochemical Comprehensive Feature Extraction 

Abnormal Extraction of Geochemical Data Based on Kalman Filter and SVM 

Summed Area Table for Rapid Local Singularity Mapping 

Application of a Coherent Multi-Dimensional Technique to the Central Part of the Mexican Volcanic Belt

Multivariate Grid-Free Geostatistical Simulation of Natural Phenomena

Semianalytical Solutions for Multispecies Transport Coupled with a Sequential First-Order Reaction Network using GITT Techniques 

Compositional Statistical Analysis of Inter-Laboratory Comparisons of Geothermal Water 

Fractal Characterization via Morphological Analysis 

Geostatistical Analysis of Functional Compositions: Characterization of Soil Particle-Size Curves through the Aitchison Geometry 

Classical Statistical Techniques for Deciphering the Origin and Evolution of Volcanoes at Volcanic Front of the Central Part of the Mexican Volcanic Belt 

Forecasting of Hollows in Abandoned Shallow Coalmines in Zone of Intensive Weathering

Metallurgical Variable

Parameter Estimation and Sensitivity Analysis in Clastic Sedimentation Modeling 

Study on Chaotic Time Series and Its Application on Forecasting Water Inrush in Mines

p-T Computation Schemes for Thermodynamic Properties of Pure Water: A Comparative Evaluation of IAPWS-95 and IAPWS-IF97 Formulations 

Statistical Lobe Hierarchy Constraint in Surface-based Reservoir Modeling 60

Transport of Molecular Fluids through Three-Dimensional Porous Media 63

Statistical Scale-up of Reservoir Properties and Dispersivities in Heterogeneous Reservoirs 

Sediment Concentration Prediction at Gangotri in the Himalayas Using Artificial Neural Networks 

Lacunarity Analysis of Fracture Intensity Maps: Are they Multifractals? 

Modified Tetrahedral Mesh Subdivision Method and Its Application in 3D Geological Body Discrete Analysis 

High Performance Computing of Hydrothermal Ore-Forming Systems: An Approach Based on the Lattice Boltzmann Method 

Resurrecting GSLIB by Code Optimization and Multi-core Programming 

Distribution Law for Mineral and Chemical Constituent Fractions in Rocks and Ores 

Comparison of Spatial Interpolation Methods for Mapping Rainfall in Indian Himalayas of Uttarakhand Region 

A Time Series Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Rainfall at Pampa River basin, Kerala, India 

Rainfall Statistics Change in West Bengal (India) from Period 1901-2000 

Groundwater Fluctuation and Trend in

Environmental Geochemistry and Pollution

Groundwater Quality Appraisal in parts of Dun Valley Aquifers in the Terai Region, Central Nepal 

GIS and Geostatistical Assessment of Groundwater and Its Pollution in Kuwait

Geomorphological Influence on Groundwater Quality and Arsenic Distribution in Parts of' Brahmaputra River Basin Adjoining Eastern Himalayas

Vulnerability of Ground Water Quality to Changing Climate - A Case Study from Kalpitiya Peninsula, Sri Lanka

Hydrogeochemical Assessment to Explore the Extent, Nature and Source of Fluoride Contamination Within the Groundwaters of the Panda River Basin, Sonbhadra District, Uttar Pradesh, India

Presence of Uranium in Groundwater of Punjab: An Overview 

Groundwater Sources in Semi-Arid Regions and their Vulnerability to Climate Change: Drâa Catchment, Morocco Assessment of Groundwater Recharge due to Monsoon in Ozar Watershed of Maharashtra State Using Isotopic Technique 

Application of Statistical Techniques to Identify the Hydrogeochemical Processes in Coastal Aquifers of Pondicherry Region- Tamil Nadu 

Isotope Hydrogeological Factors Control Transport of Radon-222 in Hard Rock Fractured Aquifer of Bangalore, Karnataka 

Groundwater Arsenic Contamination Affecting Different Geological Domains in India: Its Relation to Fluvial Geomorphology and Quaternary Stratigraphy 

Ground Water Sustainability in Varanasi District, Uttar Pradesh: Current Situation and Need for Effective Strategies 

Discharge Pattern in

Environmental Isotope Investigation to Understand the Groundwater Recharge from Irrigation Tanks in Thirumal Area, Madurai 

Quantitative Provenance Analysis of Sediments in the Changjiang (Yangtze) River (China)

Textural Variations of Sediments in the Course of a Small River: A Case Study from Khurar River, Khajuraho, Chhaterpur district, Madhya Pradesh, India 

Particle Size Characteristics of Ramganga Catchment Area of Ganga River 

Spatial and Temporal Variability in Grain Sizes of Alaknanda River 

Characterization of the Rainfall of Central Mozambique Based on Isotopes of Water 

Control of Deteriorating Water Quality in Extracted Boreholes by Flow Systems Definition 

Canal Irrigation and Its Impact on Spatial and Temporal Variation in Groundwater Level: A Case Study in Indira Gandhi Canal Project Stage I Command Area 

Impact of Canal Recharge on Groundwater Quality of Kolayat Area, District Bikaner, India 

Domestic Wastewater Treatment Using Tanfloc: A Tannin Based Coagulant  

Persistent Pesticides in Fluvial Sediment and Their Relationship with Black Carbon 

Relationship between Physicochemical Parameters and Toxicity of Leachate from Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Site in Delhi 

Effects of Coal Mining Activities on Soil Properties with Special Reference to Heavy

Coal Mining and Organic Pollutants: A Case of Mahanadi Basin Coalfields, India

Impact of Tillage and Residue Management Practices on Soil Aggregates and Soil Organic Carbon

Effect of Landcover on Soil Particle Size and Organic Carbon in Plough Layer 

Sodicity Status of Salt-Affected Soils of Israna, Haryana, India 

Characterizing and Quantifying the Effect of Aerosol Optical Depth over North Indian Plain during Harvesting Season 

Evaluation of Urban Air Pollution Distribution in the Colombo Municipal Council Area, Sri Lanka 

Platinum, Palladium and Rhodium in Road Dust/Top Soils from Major South Indian Cities: Implications on Environment and Human Health 

Longer Growing Season Decreases Peak Summer Vegetation Productivity in North American Ecosystems 

Species Diversity and Regeneration Status in Sabaiya Collaborative Forest, Nepal

Treatment of Coke Oven Effluents by Duckweeds Ponds – A Laboratory Scale Study

Tectonic Activity and Natural Disasters

Zonal Crustal Movement 

Tectonic Setting of Basic Rocks of Borborema Province, Brazil, Inferred from Multi-Dimensional Discrimination Diagrams 

Tectonomagmatic Origin of Igneous Rocks from the Western Mexican Volcanic Belt

Global Sub-Crustal Stress Field 

A Blind-wavelet Algorithm and Its Application to the Metal Mine Seismic Data Processing 

Study of N-dimensional Matrices and Its

Small- to Large-Scale Rock Fracture Patterns as Indicators of Shock-Related Fragmentation 

Distribution Study of Ore-Sourced Elements from a Long Drill-Core in a Loess-Covered Area

Hydrothermal Activity in the NE portion of the Sewell Rise, Central Andaman Trough: Evidences from Multibeam and Petrographic Studies 

Studies on the Seismicity in Garhwal Himalaya, India

Shear Seam in Dam Foundation System  

Geothermobarometry and Barrovian Metamorphism of Darjeeling-Mangpu Region, Eastern Himalaya

High-Pressure and Ultrahigh-Temperature Metamorphism at Diguva Sonaba, Eastern Ghats Mobile Bell (India): New Constraints from Phase Equilibria Modeling

Spatial Distribution of Seismic Site Coefficients for Guwahati City

Application of GIS-Based Weights of Evidence Method for Metallogenic Prediction to Copper Resources in Western Region of Zhejiang, China

Application of Fuzzy Gamma Operator in Landslide Susceptibility Mapping Along Yercaud Ghat Road Section, Tamilnadu, India 

A Benchmark Synthetic Dataset for Fractured Reservoir 

Modelling and Simulations

Three-Dimensional Metallogenic Prediction in Tonglushan Region Based on Digital Ore Deposit Model

The Integration Model of Deep Structure and Ore-Forming Systems of the Pechenga District (Baltic Shield)

Joint Conditional Simulation of an Iron Ore Deposit Using Minimum or Maximum

Digital Modeling in the Study of Heavy Mineral Placers 

Working with Hierarchical Databases in R to Model Geometallurgical Data

Application of Empirical Model Decomposition and Independent Component Analysis to Magnetic Anomalies Separation: A Case Study for Gobi Desert Coverage in Eastern Tianshan, China

3D Modeling of Urban Geological Body Based on the KDA Method for Beijing City, China

Generalized Compensation Model for the Gravimetric Moho Recovery

Colloidal Transport under Nonlinear Sorption in a Single Variable Fracture Aperture

A Markov Chain Monte Carlo-based Particle Filter Approach for Spatiotemporal Modelling of an Environmental Process

Using Stratigraphic Forward Modeling to Model the Brookian Sequence of the Alaska North Slope

Numerical Simulation of Migration of Seismic Activity (On the Example of Kamchatka)

Comparative Performance of Thirteen Single Outlier Discordancy Tests from Monte Carlo Simulations

3D Crustal Temperature Modeling over Japan for Geothermal Resource Assessment

A Nonstationary Nonlinear Geostatistical Model and Its Application in a Beach Sand Deposit for Recoverable Reserve Estimation 

Contextualized Geographically Weighted Principal Components Analysis for Investigating Baseline Soils Data on the North Wyke Farm Platform

Downscaling of Precipitation in Mahanadi Basin, India using Support Vector Machine, K-Nearest Neighbor and Hybrid of Support Vector Machine with K-Nearest Neighbor

Dynamics of Overland Flow under Changing Cropping Pattern: A Spatial Modeling Approach in Penganga Sub-watershed

Challenges of Including Groundwater Depth in a Liquefaction Loss Model 

Stochastic Quantification of Low-Resolution Geocoding Uncertainty and Its Application to Catastrophe Modeling 

An Improvised Effective Oceanography Monitoring using Large Area Underwater Sensor Networks 

Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics

The Extraction of Oil and Gas Information by Using SAS Imagery in the Jimusaer Field, Xinjiang-Clay Alteration Minerals 

Characterization of Sampling Error in Instantaneous Orbital Data Products of TRMM over Indian Subcontinent 

Estimation of Regional Groundwater System in a Granitic Body by 3D Permeable Zone Modeling and Flow Simulation 

Hyperspectral Image Classification Using a New Dictionary Learning Approach with Structured Sparse Representation 

Estimating Land Surface Temperature and Its Lapse Rate over Kashmir Valley Using MODIS Data 

Combining Quantitation of Remote Sensing Information of Local Structures and Calculation of Structural Stress Field 

Research on GIS-Based 3D Prospectivity Mapping and a Case Study of Jiama Copper-Polymetallic Deposit in Tibet, China 

Inferring Land Surface Processes from Watershed Characterization 

Investigation of Seepage Channel Using Remote Sensing Technique in Jodhpur

Monitoring Snow Cover Area Using Different Algorithms on Indian Remote Sensing Data 

Optimization of Neural Networks for Multisource Classification in a Glaciated Terrain 

Generation of Stream Length Gradient Index Map Using Visual Basic Program – A Case Study from South India 

Three Dimensional Quantitative Extraction and Integration for Geosciences Information: A Case Study of Nannihu Mo Deposit Area 

Multi-Classifier Fusion for Land Use Land Cover Mapping in Jharia Coal Field 

Land Use and Land Cover Changes and Their Impacts on Floods in Pampa River Basin in Kerala: A Remote Sensing Based Analysis  <

Spatio-Temporal Study of the Distribution of Land Use and Land Cover Change Pattern in Chandigarh, India using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques

Development of Technique to Characterize TROF 

Study of the Urban Green Space Planning Using Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing Approaches for the City of Colombo, Sri Lanka 

Prediction of Crop Suitability of Certain Indian Spices –A GIS Approach 

Morphometric and Hydrological Study of Alaknanda and Bhagirathi Basins 

Role of Remote Sensing Data in Geoenvironmental Mapping: Case Studies from Syria 

Integrating Smart Platforms to Analyze Energy Patterns in Academic Building 

An Integrated Golden Spike Information Portal Enabled by Data Visualization and Semantic Web Technologies 

Web-based Facility Management System using Open Source GIS

Meteorology

Estimation of Wind Speed in the Suburban Atmospheric Surface Layer 

Role of Arabian Sea Surface Pressure on Indian Northeast Monsoon

Effect of Dust on the Indian Summer Monsoon

Study of Physical and Dynamical Processes in the Ionosphere at Equatorial Anomaly Crest Region during Magnetic Storm for High and Low Solar Activity Period 

Winter Hailstorm over New Delhi, India 

Spatio-Temporal Variability of Rainfall and Temperature in Northeast India

Surface Energy and Mass Balance on the Ablation Zone of Chorabari Glacier, Central Himalaya, India 

Monitoring the Status of Siachen Glacier using Multi Temporal Remote Sensing Approach 

Monitoring Glacial Parameters in Parts of Zanskar Basin, Jammu and Kashmir 

An Analysis of Pattern of Changes in Snow Cover in the Upper Beas River Basin, Western Himalaya 

Stream Flow Changes and Glacier Recession in the Upper Indus Basin 

Hydrological Modeling and Streamflow Characterization of Gangotri Glacier

Abundance of Cycladophora davisiana

Conservation Agriculture – A New Paradigm for Climate Change Mitigation in Rainfed Indian Agriculture 

Perspective of the Agriculture Development of the Mountain Areas in Modern Condition of Climate Change

In the Face of Changing Climate: Groundwater Development through Artificial Recharge in Hard Rock Terrain of Kumaun Lesser Himalaya