Analyzing the relationship between Ferromanganese crust composition and water depth through Collocated Co-Kriging
investigate potential reduction in sampling needed for deep sea resources exploration
Geostatistics
Kriging
Deep Sea Mining
Uncertainty Quantification
This thesis investigates the relationship betweenwater depth and Fe-Mn crust composition and evaluates how incorporating this relationship through collocated co-kriging (CK) can improve resource estimation accuracy and confidence compared to ordinary kriging (OK)