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Mahyar Yousefi

Mahyar Yousefi

Academic rank: Associate Professor
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Education: PhD.
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Research

Title
Using U-spatial statistics method to identify and classify intensity of geochemical anomalies in the Neysian area
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
Geochemical dataset Threshold Structural method U-spatial statistics
Year
2024
Journal Scientific Quarterly Journal of Geosciences
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Researchers Amir Salimi ، Samaneh Barak ، Mahyar Yousefi

Abstract

An accurate threshold value makes a precise geochemical separation into anomaly and background areas. The threshold assignment using structural methods are preferred to non-structural methods. In this research, the U-spatial statistics, a structural based method, was used to study soil type geochemical data of the Neysian region. The optimal U-values obtained by this method for each sample were successfully utilized to separate the abnormal and background samples, accurately. In addition, based on the optimal distance of each sample, the abnormal samples identified in the previous step were classified in terms of geochemical intensity into strong, medium, and weak samples. The goodness of U-spatial statistics performance in identifying abnormal areas were validated using drilled boreholes in the area. The U-spatial statistics not only succeeded in correctly identifying anomalous samples, but it also correctly identified some samples as the background whiles they had been recognized as anomaly by a non-structural method. All results obtained were validated by the several drilled boreholes.