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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-5265-2023
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
AutoQS v1: automatic parametrization of QuickSampling based on training images analysis
Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research, Austrian Academy
of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria
Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment,
University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Department of Physical Geography, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht
University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Grégoire Mariethoz
Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment,
University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Multiple‐point geostatistics are widely used to simulate complex spatial structures based on a training image. The use of these methods relies on the possibility of finding optimal training images and parametrization of the simulation algorithms. Here, we propose finding an optimal set of parameters using only the training image as input. The main advantage of our approach is to remove the risk of overfitting an objective function.
Multiple‐point geostatistics are widely used to simulate complex spatial structures based on a...