The Necessity of a Multiple-Point Prior Model |
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| Authors: | Andre Journel and Tuanfeng Zhang |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, California, 94305, USA |
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| Abstract: | Any interpolation, any hand contouring or digital drawing of a map or a numerical model necessarily calls for a prior model
of the multiple-point statistics that link together the data to the unsampled nodes, then these unsampled nodes together.
That prior model can be implicit, poorly defined as in hand contouring; it can be explicit through an algorithm as in digital
mapping. The multiple-point statistics involved go well beyond single-point histogram and two-point covariance models; the
challenge is to define algorithms that can control more of such statistics, particularly those that impact most the utilization
of the resulting maps beyond their visual appearance. The newly introduced multiple-point simulation (mps) algorithms borrow
the high order statistics from a visually and statistically explicit model, a training image. It is shown that mps can simulate
realizations with high entropy character as well as traditional Gaussian-based algorithms, while offering the flexibility
of considering alternative training images with various levels of low entropy (organized) structures. The impact on flow performance
(spatial connectivity) of choosing a wrong training image among many sharing the same histogram and variogram is demonstrated. |
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| Keywords: | variogram connectivity training image pattern reconstruction multivariate Gaussian model multiple-point simulation |
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