Preface Part I Biology Geostatistical modelling of wildlife populations: a non-stationary hierarchical model for count data Incorporating survey data to improve space-time geostatistical analysis of King Prawn catch rate Part II Climate Multivariate interpolation of monthly precipitation amount in the United Kingdom Extreme precipitation modelling using geostatistics and machine learning algorithms On geostatistical analysis of rainfall using data from boundary sites Geostatistics applied to the city of Porto urban climatology Integrating meteorological dynamic data and historical data into a stochastic model for predicting forest fires risk Part III Health Using geostatistical methods in the analysis of public health data: The final frontier? Second-order analysis of the spatio-temporal distribution of human campylobacteriosis in Preston, Lancashire Application of geostatistics in cancer studies Part IV Hydrology Blocking Markov chain Monte Carlo schemes for inverse stochastic modeling Simulation of fine-scale heterogeneity of meandering river aquifer analogues: comparing different approaches Application of multiple-point geostatistics on modelling groundwater flow and transport in a cross-bedded aquifer Part V Pollution Assessment of the impact of pollution by arsenic in the vicinity of Panasqueira mine (Portugal) Simulation of continuous variables at meander structures:application to contaminated sediments of a lagoon Joint space-time geostatistical model for air quality surveillance/monitoring system Geostatistical methods for polluted sites characterization Geostatistical mapping of outfall plume dispersion data gathered with an autonomous underwater vehicle Part VI Soils and Agiculture Change of the a priori stochastic structure in the conditional simulation of transmissivity fields Geostatistical interpolation of soil properties in boom clay in Flanders An examination of transformation techniques to investigate and interpret multivariate geochemical data analysis - Tellus Case Study Shelling in the First World War increased the heavy metal concentrations in the soil around Ypres Geostatistics studies of rubber tree dendrometrics characteristics and soil physical attributes Investigating the potential of area-to-area and area-to-point kriging for defining management zones for precision farming of cranberries Part VII Theory Estimating the local small support semivariogram for use in super-resolution mapping Modeling spatial uncertainty for locally uncertain data Spatial interpolation using copula-based geostatistical models Exchanging uncertainty. Interoperable geostatistics? Prediction of a multivariate spatial random field with continuous, count and ordinal outcomes Detection of optimal models in high dimensional parameter space with support vector machines Robust automatic mapping algorithms in a network monitoring scenario Parallel geostatistics for sparse and dense datasets Multiple point geostatistical simulation with simulated annealing: Implementation using speculative parallel computing Application of copulas in geostatistics Integrating prior knowledge and locally varying parameters with Moving-GeoStatistics: methodology and application to bathymetric mapping Index