The use of a genetic algorithm-based search strategy in geostatistics: application to a set of anisotropic piezometric head data

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• 作者：M.J. Abedini^a ; ^{abedini@shirazu.ac.ir} ; M. Nasseri^b ; D.H. Burn^c
• 关键词：Genetic algorithm ; Search strategy ; Ordinary kriging ; Wolfcamp Aquifer ; Anisotropic data
• 刊名：Computers and Geosciences
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：16_00983004
• 类别：ear
• 出版时间：April, 2012
• 卷：41
• 期：Complete
• 页码：136-146
• 文件大小：773 K

摘要

In any geostatistical study, an important consideration is the choice of an appropriate, repeatable, and objective search strategy that controls the nearby samples to be included in the location-specific estimation procedure. Almost all geostatistical software available in the market puts the onus on the user to supply search strategy parameters in a heuristic manner. These parameters are solely controlled by geographical coordinates that are defined for the entire area under study, and the user has no guidance as to how to choose these parameters. The main thesis of the current study is that the selection of search strategy parameters has to be driven by data鈥攂oth the spatial coordinates and the sample values鈥攁nd cannot be chosen beforehand. For this purpose, a genetic-algorithm-based ordinary kriging with moving neighborhood technique is proposed. The search capability of a genetic algorithm is exploited to search the feature space for appropriate, either local or global, search strategy parameters. Radius of circle/sphere and/or radii of standard or rotated ellipse/ellipsoid are considered as the decision variables to be optimized by GA. The superiority of GA-based ordinary kriging is demonstrated through application to the Wolfcamp Aquifer piezometric head data. Assessment of numerical results showed that definition of search strategy parameters based on both geographical coordinates and sample values improves cross-validation statistics when compared with that based on geographical coordinates alone. In the case of a variable search neighborhood for each estimation point, optimization of local search strategy parameters for an elliptical support domain鈥攖he orientation of which is dictated by anisotropic axes鈥攙ia GA was able to capture the dynamics of piezometric head in west Texas/New Mexico in an efficient way.