Applied Geostatistics

I am a self-taught student of geostats, and this book is my tutor. While I would prefer some formal instruction to augment this text, the text is excellent and a must-read for any student of the field.


Well written, comprehensive and approachable   February 2, 1999
 3 out of 3 found this review helpful

This book is a great book for people seeking to understand geostatistics, without the painfull math associated with the topic. The text is well written, with usfull examples in each chapter.


An excelent introductory book on geostatistics   December 9, 1998
 3 out of 3 found this review helpful

When someone is getting his first steps on the subject of geostatistics, this is definitely a book to start with. The approach adopted by the authors is very didactic. A single data set is the central motive of the book, in which a series of procedures are applied such as Exploratory Data Analysis, Scatterplots, declustering methods, Variograms, Kriging techniques. Therefore the reader may built his own feelings for the techniques and how they apply to a specific data set, and their relative advantages of use. The treatment is mathematically simple (you could not get simpler than this). Therefore it is aimed to a very large audience. If your knowledge on geostatistics is more than trivial and you would like to go further, then this book is insufficient and you must search for more specific books. However, every (future) geostatistician should have a sound knowledge on the subjects treated in Isaaks & Srivastava's book. In that case, you should not skip this book.