Journal of the Korean Society of Mineral and Energy Resources Engineers ISSN:2288-0291(Print) 2288-2790(Online) 한국자원공학회지

The series of geostatistical techniques have been mainly applied to estimate the distribution of manganese nodule abundance in deep sea bed. In comparison of other techniques, these geostatistical techniques have been already validated excellently for the estimation because of the least statistical error norm between actual and estimated values. This paper shows that the characteristics of manganese nodule abundance distributions between regenerated patterns using an available geostatistical technique and fractal geometry transformation procedure are noticeably different from the geostatistical techniques. The available geostatistical technique, RRA(Random Residual Addition) is commonly reformed from the conventional geostatistical distributions as the same spatial variability like the true phenomenon such as same variogram or same generalized covariance, and fractal geometry transformation procedure is a technique of which fractal theory is applied to geometric space transformation. The geometric space is reconstructed by the property of manganese nodule abundance in deep-sea bed. Consequently this paper affirms that the regenerated distribution of the abundance can be characterized similarly to natural geometric shape like self-affinity using fractal geometry transformation procedure and also can be used as an early estimation of regionalized distribution of manganese nodule abundance including other minerals in deep-sea bed.