Space, Structure and Randomness - Contributions in Honor of Georges Matheron in the Fields of Geostatistics, Random Sets and Mathematical Morphology

Personal Reminiscences of Georges Matheron

A few words about Georges Matheron ( 1930- 2000)

Contents

List of Contributors

Geostatistics

The genesis of geostatistics in gold and diamond industries

Concepts and Methods of Geostatistics

Prediction by conditional simulation: models and algorithms

Flow in porous media: An attempt to outline Georges Matheron’s contributions

Over Thirty Years of Petroleum Geostatistics

The expansion of environmental geostatistics

Random Sets

Random Closed Sets

The Boolean Model: from Matheron till Today

Random Structures in Physics

Mathematical Morphology

Mophological Operators for the Segmentation of Colour Images

Automatic design of morphological operators

Morphological Decomposition Systems with Perfect Reconstruction: From Pyramids to Wavelets

Morphological segmentation revisited

Ubiquity of the Distance Function in Mathematical Morphology

Partial Differential Equations for Morphological Operators

Index