Course

Geostatistics

Dates 8 - 12 Dec 2025
Location Wageningen University Campus Forum B0107
ECTS 1.5

Geostatistics is concerned with the analysis and modelling of spatial variability. It also addresses how quantified spatial variability can be used in optimal spatial interpolation and spatial stochastic simulation. Fields of application include hydrology, soil science, ecology, geology, agriculture and forestry. This course aims to provide PhD candidates with a solid background in standard and more advanced geostatistical methods, such that they can apply these in their own research. The course is a mix of theory and practice, with case studies that are analysed using R and contributed geostatistical packages. We also reserve one hour each day for participants to work on their own data or discuss their own research with the course teachers.

 

Day 1
  • Morning: Lectures and exercises spatial variability
  • Afternoon: Spatial data in R and spatial variability
  • Evening: Course dinner (is included in the course fee)
Day 2
  • Morning: Lectures and exercises ordinary kriging, indicator kriging, cokriging and spatial stochastic simulation
  • Afternoon: Computer lab kriging and spatial stochastic simulation
Day 3
  • Morning: Lectures and exercises regression kriging, cross-validation, block kriging and area-to-point kriging
  • Afternoon: Computer lab regression kriging, cross-validation, block kriging and area-to-point kriging
Day 4
  • Morning: Lecture and exercises space-time kriging and sampling design optimisation
  • Afternoon: Computer lab space-time kriging and sampling design optimisation
Day 5
  • Morning: Lecture and computer lab Bayesian Geostatistics for mapping categorical spatial variables
  • Afternoon: Course evaluation + Sampling design contest + Drinks and snacks
Target GroupThe course is aimed at PhD candidates, postdocs, and other academics that are interested in statistical modelling of spatially distributed variables
Group SizeMin. 20, max. 30 participants. 
Course duration5 days
Prior knowledgeParticipants are expected to have a good knowledge of basic statistics. Participants without knowledge of the R language are encouraged to study this introduction to R.
LecturersProf. dr. Gerard Heuvelink (Soil Geography and Landscape Group, Wageningen University) and Prof. dr. Sytze de Bruin (Laboratory of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University)
 

FEE1

PE&RC / WIMEK / WASS / EPS / VLAG / WIAS PhDs / EngD with TSP

€ 355,-

PE&RC postdocs and staff

€ 710,-

All other academic participants

€ 750,-

Non-academic participants

€1105,-

1 The course fee includes a reader, coffee/tea, and lunches and the course dinner on the first evening. It does not include accommodation

PE&RC Cancellation Conditions
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Please note that, at this stage, this event is fully booked. Nevertheless, you are most welcome to register for this event, and accordingly, we will place you in a waiting list. Should any of the registered participants cancel his/her registration (which is quite common), we will notify you and ask you whether you would still like to participate in this event. If we do not contact you again with respect to this event, you may assume that no vacancies have arisen.

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