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  title info:
    title: Space, Structure and Randomness
    sub title: Contributions in Honor of Georges Matheron in the Field of Geostatistics, Random Sets and Mathematical Morphology
  name:
    name part: Bilodeau, Michel.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Meyer, Fernand.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Schmitt, Michel.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 398 p. 121 illus. online resource.
  abstract: Space, structure, and randomness: these are the three key concepts underlying Georges Matheron’s scientific work. He first encountered them at the beginning of his career when working as a mining engineer, and then they resurfaced in fields ranging from meteorology to microscopy. What could these radically different types of applications possibly have in common? First, in each one only a single realisation of the phenomenon is available for study, but its features repeat themselves in space; second, the sampling pattern is rarely regular, and finally there are problems of change of scale. This volume is divided in three sections on random sets, geostatistics and mathematical morphology. They reflect his professional interests and his search for underlying unity. Some readers may be surprised to find theoretical chapters mixed with applied ones. We have done this deliberately. GM always considered that the distinction between the theory and practice was purely academic. When GM tackled practical problems, he used his skill as a physicist to extract the salient features and to select variables which could be measured meaningfully and whose values could be estimated from the available data. Then he used his outstanding ability as a mathematician to solve the problems neatly and efficiently. It was his capacity to combine a physicist’s intuition with a mathematician’s analytical skills that allowed him to produce new and innovative solutions to difficult problems. The book should appeal to graduate students and researchers working in mathematics, probability, statistics, physics, spatial data analysis, and image analysis. In addition it will be of interest to those who enjoy discovering links between scientific disciplines that seem unrelated at first glance. In writing the book the contributors have tried to put GM’s ideas into perspective. During his working life, GM was a genuinely creative scientist. He developed innovative concepts whose usefulness goes far beyond …
  table of contents: Geostatistics -- The genesis of geostatistics in gold and diamond industries -- Concepts and Methods of Geostatistics -- Prediction by conditional simulation: models and algorithms -- Flow in porous media: An attempt to outline Georges Matheron’s contributions -- Over Thirty Years of Petroleum Geostatistics -- The expansion of environmental geostatistics -- Random Sets -- Random Closed Sets -- The Boolean Model: from Matheron till Today -- Random Structures in Physics -- Mathematical Morphology -- Mophological Operators for the Segmentation of Colour Images -- Automatic design of morphological operators -- Morphological Decomposition Systems with Perfect Reconstruction: From Pyramids to Wavelets -- Morphological segmentation revisited -- Ubiquity of the Distance Function in Mathematical Morphology -- Partial Differential Equations for Morphological Operators.
  note: edited by Michel Bilodeau, Fernand Meyer, Michel Schmitt.
  subject:
    topic: Statistics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical statistics
  subject:
    topic: Image processing
  subject:
    topic: Environmental sciences
  subject:
    topic: Statistics
  subject:
    topic: Statistical Theory and Methods
  subject:
    topic: Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Probability and Statistics in Computer Science
  subject:
    topic: Image Processing and Computer Vision
  subject:
    topic: Signal, Image and Speech Processing
  subject:
    topic: Math. Appl. in Environmental Science
  classification: QA276-280
  classification: 519.5
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      title: Springer eBooks
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