Geostatistic Excel Spreadsheet - Marcel Menicheli

Introduction

This excel file was for years my collection of geostatistical formulas in the attempt to
“open the black box” of basics of Kriging and conditional simulation. Working in the
area of mining, grade control and resource evaluation I created a “visual” version of
the spreadsheet to help me explain the basics and was very good received as the
majority of the geologists and other professionals in this area being visual learning
and also very experienced with Microsoft excel.
After many requests I decide to share the file whishing that everyone can learn a bit
from it.

I’m still working in an updated version with co-kriging, indicator kriging and
conditional simulation of categorical values but will need a few weeks to finish
(maybe months as I’m working in a very busy position in a very busy company).

Feel free to use and modify. Any question, recommendation or correction contact me
on marcel.menicheli@gmail.com

Kind Regards
Marcel Menicheli

Limitations
Use this is as a learning tool. I do not recommend a different use of this file other than
educational.

You will not find here the geostatistics theory, definitions and explanations. This is a
practical application of a technics and theories that you should learn in a geostatistics
course. Use this as a graphical/visual complement of these courses.
If you try to learn by yourself I recommend buy a good geostatistics book like:
Isaaks, Edward H.; Srivastava, R. Mohan (1989). An Introduction to Applied
Geostatistics. Oxford University Press.

The colourings cells give the idea of a block model although punctual/node kriging is
the method utilised to assign a value in to the cell.

To take advantage of all functions you should activate macros execution.

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Interpolation sheet Sample Coordinates

Horizontal control Values Control
Variogram to change the range Box for
display

Anisotropy
Vertical control to (>0 and <1)
change the ratio
between C0 and C1
Cumulative Azimuth for
Histogram Aniso.

Sample
2D ellipse location

Power for inverse

of distance

All cells in yellow are an input parameter cell for the user interact with the
interpolating options.

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Nearest Neighbour

Inverse of distance (in this case squared)

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Simple Kriging

Simple Kriging Variance

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Ordinary Kriging

Ordinary Kriging Variance

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Lagrange Parameter

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Gaussian Conditional Simulation

This sheet is linked with the simple krig equations at Interpolation sheet

Control
Histogram
(Min, Max & Box for
E-type display

Simulation button.
Need to be pushed to rum the
simulation

Topcut for Relative

distribution

E-type

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One realization

Relative distribution (Top cut of 10 to help the visualization).

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Minimum case

Maximum case

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Support spreadsheets

X anisotropy
(median axis) Y anisotropy (major
“>0 and >=Z end <1 axis usually kept 1)
and <=Y” “>0 and >=X, Z and <1”

Z anisotropy (minor
Rotations on the axis)
axis X,Y & Z “>0 and <=X, Z and <1”

GSLIB ellipse rotation as per Deutsch & Journel 1998

Variogram /
Covariogram structure

Variograms models

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Move to show the

relationship
1.00 1.00

0.90 0.90

0.80 0.80

0.70 0.70

0.60 0.60

0.50 0.50

0.40 0.40

0.30 0.30

0.20 0.20

0.10 0.10

- 113.413 - 0.063
0 50 100 150 200 250 -2.00 -1.50 -1.00 -0.50 - 0.50 1.00 1.50 2.00

Normal Transformation

1.00

0.90

0.80

0.70

0.60

0.50

0.40

0.30

0.20

0.10

-
-2.00 -1.50 -1.00 -0.50 - 0.50 1.00 1.50 2.00

Mont Carlo simulation (Press F9 to recalculate)

100 Simulations (A,B,C,D,E)
Normal distribution
1,000 Simulations

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Total expected
variance

Expected
variance
Between Blocks

Change of support

Bibliography

Isaaks, Edward H.; Srivastava, R. Mohan (1989). An Introduction to Applied

Geostatistics. Oxford University Press.

Deutsch, Clayton V.; Journel, Andre G. (1998). GSLIB Geostatistical Software

Library and User’s Guide. Oxford University Press.

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