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Didier RENARD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Sept 1978 - June 1979: Research Engineer at the Centre d'Informatique Géologique
  • July 1979 - Jan 1982: Research Engineer at the Centre de Géostatistique.
  • Feb 1982 - Feb 1983: Engineer in charge of Computing, at Geomath - Denver (Colorado) (French National Service).
  • Since March 1983: Research Engineer at the Centre de Géostatistique.
  • Since 1993: Engineer in charge of the Computing Group in the Geostatistics Team of the Centre de Géosciences.
  • Since 2005: Main developper of the package RGeostats.

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

After completing my engineering degree at Ecole des Mines, I wanted to perform research. The year that I spent in the Centre d'Informatique Géologique of Paris School of Mines, gave me the opportunity to learn about hydrogeology and put me in charge of developing an industrial version of BLUEPACK, the first geostatistical software specifically designed for the oil industry (initially developed for Shell).

This experience encouraged me to pursue a research career in geostatistics. I continued the inception and the development of BLUEPACK during a one year military duty that I spent at Geomath in Denver, a joint venture between the Ecole des Mines de Paris and the French Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM).

Then I returned to the Centre de Géostatistique in Fontainebleau where I have been actively involved in the development of both the algorithms and the computer code for successive versions of the Centre's geostatistical softwares. Let us mention in praticular:

  • MAGMA which was the first general purpose geostatistical software developed by the Centre.
  • ISATIS which has become the benchmark for scientific software in the geostatistical domain. In 1995 its commercialisation was transferred to Geovariances, a company that specialised in this field.
  • ISATOIL which was designed to calculate hydrocarbon volumes in places and was developed within the framework of a oil industry contract with Statoil.

All these specialized packages were finally regrouped into the first commercial package spacialized in Geostatisticscalled ISATIS. Initially conceived in the Centre de Geostatistics of the Ecole des Mines de Paris, it was entrusted to Geovariances company. My task is now to provide some help in terms of consultancy for the enhancement of this software, which is now upgraded into Isatis Neo platform.

Over the past 20 years I have also carried out many research contracts for companies and governmental agencies (Agip or ENI, Total, Statoil or Equinor, Charbonnages de France, Ifremer). I have been active in teaching, particularly short courses for industry, and in directing theses.

More recently, I initiated the development of the package RGeostats which is considered as the software development and testing plateform of the Geostatistical Team of the Center of Geosciences of Mines ParisTech.

In the last years, I have been involved in the development of SPDE (and its code within RGeostats) which stands as the new avenue for geostatistical applications.

 

Journal articles15 documents

  • Pierre Petitgas, Didier Renard, Nicolas Desassis, Martin Huret, Jean-Baptiste Romagnan, et al.. Analysing Temporal Variability in Spatial Distributions Using Min–Max Autocorrelation Factors: Sardine Eggs in the Bay of Biscay. Mathematical Geosciences, Springer Verlag, 2020, ⟨10.1007/s11004-019-09845-1⟩. ⟨hal-02429543⟩
  • Oktay Erten, Didier Renard, Lachlan Mcandrew. Modelling of bauxite seam attributes and quantifying in-situ ore volume uncertainty in the presence of geophysical information. Applied Earth Science, Maney Publishing, 2020, 129 (1), pp.41-51. ⟨10.1080/25726838.2019.1708666⟩. ⟨hal-02491613⟩
  • Maria Repina, Didier Renard, Frédéric Bouyer, Vincent Lagneau. Coupling image analysis and thermo-mechanical simulation results to produce a model of the fracture network in a nuclear glass canister. Journal of Nuclear Materials, Elsevier, 2019, 522, pp.265-285. ⟨10.1016/j.jnucmat.2019.05.013⟩. ⟨hal-02271322⟩
  • Mathias Maillot, Nicolas Flipo, Agnès Rivière, Nicolas Desassis, Didier Renard, et al.. Technical note: Water table mapping accounting for river-aquifer connectivity and human pressure. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions, European Geosciences Union, 2019, pp.1-21. ⟨10.5194/hess-2019-101⟩. ⟨hal-02283806⟩
  • Christian Lantuéjoul, Xavier Freulon, Didier Renard. Spectral Simulation of Isotropic Gaussian Random Fields on a Sphere. Mathematical Geosciences, Springer Verlag, 2019, 51 (8), pp.999-1020. ⟨10.1007/s11004-019-09799-4⟩. ⟨hal-02736248⟩
  • Mathias Maillot, Nicolas Flipo, Agnès Rivière, Nicolas Desassis, Didier Renard, et al.. Technical note: Water table mapping accounting for river-aquifer connectivity and human pressure. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, European Geosciences Union, 2019, 23 (11), pp.4835-4849. ⟨10.5194/hess-23-4835-2019⟩. ⟨hal-02404152⟩
  • Christian Lajaunie, Didier Renard, Alexis Quentin, Vincent Le Guen, Yvan Caffari. A non-homogeneous model for kriging dosimetric data. Mathematical Geosciences, Springer Verlag, 2019, 52 (7), pp.847-863. ⟨10.1007/s11004-019-09823-7⟩. ⟨hal-03041125⟩
  • Hélène Beucher, Didier Renard. Truncated Gaussian and derived methods. Comptes Rendus Géoscience, Elsevier Masson, 2016, ⟨10.1016/j.crte.2015.10.004⟩. ⟨hal-01302355⟩
  • Jacques Rivoirard, Didier Renard. A Specific Volume to Measure the Spatial Sampling of Deposits. Mathematical Geosciences, Springer Verlag, 2016, 48 (7), pp.791-809. ⟨10.1007/s11004-016-9647-9⟩. ⟨hal-01410131⟩
  • Didier Renard, Christophe Bessin, Jacques Deraisme. Choice of a methodological approach for the estimation of recoverable resources with uranium deposits in central Jordan. Applied Earth Science, Maney Publishing, 2015, 124 (2), pp.95-103. ⟨10.1179/1743275815Y.0000000002⟩. ⟨hal-01540062⟩
  • M Abzalov, S Drobov, O Gorbatenko, A Vershkov, Olivier Bertoli, et al.. Resource estimation of in situ leach uranium projects. Applied Earth Science, Maney Publishing, 2014, 123 (2), pp.71-85. ⟨10.1179/1743275814Y.0000000055⟩. ⟨hal-01081861⟩
  • A. Corlobé, Didier Renard, C Goizet, E. Berger, L Rumbach, et al.. Formes cavitaires de sclérose en plaques : étude multicentrique sur vingt patients [Cavitary lesions in multiple sclerosis: multicenter study on twenty patients].. Revue Neurologique, Elsevier Masson, 2013, 169 (12), pp.965-9. ⟨10.1016/j.neurol.2013.02.010⟩. ⟨inserm-01576397⟩
  • Nicolas Desassis, Didier Renard. Automatic Variogram Modeling by Iterative Least Squares: Univariate and Multivariate Cases. Mathematical Geology, Springer Verlag, 2013, 45 (4), pp 453-470 DOI 10.1007/s11004-012-9434-1. ⟨10.1007/s11004-012-9434-1⟩. ⟨hal-00959647⟩
  • Didier Renard, Hélène Beucher. 3D representations of a uranium roll-front deposit. Applied Earth Science, Maney Publishing, 2012, 121 (2), pp.84-88. ⟨10.1179/1743275812Y.0000000011⟩. ⟨hal-01082223⟩
  • Hélène Beucher, Didier Renard, Brigitte Doligez, Marco Pontiggia, Giuseppe Bellentani. The effect of methodology on volumetric Uncertainty estimation in static reservoir models. AAPG Bulletin, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 2008, 92 (10), pp.1359 - 1371. ⟨hal-00584894⟩

Conference papers22 documents

  • Didier Renard, Jean-Marc Chautru, Hélène Binet, Pedram Masoudi, François Geffroy. Modeling Complex Tectonic Structures in Any Kind of Grid without Space Deformation. 82nd EAGE Annual Conference & Exhibition, European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, Dec 2020, online, France. ⟨hal-03108777⟩
  • Didier Renard, J.M. Chautru, Pedram Masoudi, Hélène Binet. Time-Depth Conversion with Uncertain and/or Incomplete Data. 82nd EAGE Conference & Exhibition 2020, European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, Dec 2020, Online, France. ⟨hal-03108770⟩
  • Laure Pizzella, Christian Lajaunie, Gabriel Courrioux, Simon Lopez, X. Freulon, et al.. Integrating field interpretations to geological modeling with the potential field method. IAMG 2019, International Association of Mathematical Geosciences, Aug 2019, State College, PA, United States. ⟨hal-02428841v2⟩
  • Laure Pizzella, Christian Lajaunie, Gabriel Courrioux, Simon Lopez, Xavier Freulon, et al.. Prise en compte d'une anisotropie variable dans la modélisation géologique à l'aide de la méthode du potentiel. Les Journées de Géostatistique 2019, Sep 2019, Fontainebleau, France. ⟨hal-02447272⟩
  • Maria Repina, Frederic Bouyer, Vincent Lagneau, Didier Renard. Nuclear glass alteration: bridging the gap from surface reactivity description to reactive transport at the scale of the fractured block. CMWR, Jun 2018, Saint Malo, France. ⟨hal-01881096⟩
  • Didier Renard, Nicolas Desassis, Xavier Freulon. Some Geostatistical methods through the Stochastic Partial Differential Equation Approach. 18th IAMG Conference, Perth, Sep 2017, Perth, Australia. ⟨hal-01718948⟩
  • Jacques Rivoirard, Didier Renard, Felipe Celhay, David Benado, Queiroz Celeste, et al.. From the spatial sampling of a deposit to mineral resources classification. 10th International Geostatistics Congress, Sep 2016, Valencia, Spain. ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-46819-8⟩. ⟨hal-01410183⟩
  • Laurent Wagner, Didier Renard, Thomas Romary, Gustavo Pilger, Colin Carey, et al.. Combining geostatistical hiercharchical clustering (GHC) and potential field method for fast and flexible domaining with updating capabilities : a case study with grade shell modelling in iron ore. Geostats 2016, Sep 2016, Valencia, Spain. ⟨hal-01408586⟩
  • Hélène Beucher, Jean-Paul Chilès, Caroline Mehl, Didier Renard, Cécile Allanic, et al.. Methodology for simulating fractures in a fault zone: Analysis of the data from "cirque de Navacelles". Geoenv2014 ( 10th Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications), Jun 2014, Paris, France. ⟨hal-01112189⟩
  • Nicolas Desassis, Didier Renard, Hélène Beucher, Stéphanie Hamilton, Joan Esterle. Experimental Variograms Of The Underlying Gaussian Random Functions In The Truncated Pluri- Gaussian Models. GeoEnv, 2014, Paris, France. ⟨hal-01550707⟩
  • Didier Renard, Laurent Wagner, Jean-Paul Chilès, John Vann, Jacques Deraisme. Modeling the geometry of a mineral deposit domain with a Potential Field. 36th APCOM, Nov 2013, Porto Allegre, Brazil. Modeling the geometry of a mineral deposit domain with a Potential Field. ⟨hal-00797482⟩
  • Didier Renard, Jean-Paul Chilès, Jacques Rivoirard, Marco Alfaro. Assessment of the resources of a Gold Deposit by Transitive Kriging. APCOM 36th, Nov 2013, Porto Allegre, Brazil. Assessment of the resources of a Gold Deposit by Transitive Kriging. ⟨hal-00797608⟩
  • Didier Renard, Renaud Meunier, Matthieu Bourges, Hélène Binet, Nicolas Jeannée, et al.. Geostatistical filtering of 4D seismic data: methods and benefits. 13th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society & EXPOGEF, Brazilian Geophysical Society & EXPOGEF, Aug 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. pp.1432-1434. ⟨hal-00821814⟩
  • Hans Wackernagel, Fabien Ors, Didier Renard. Operational monitoring of radioelectric exposure in an urban environment. Ninth Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications (geoENV2012), Sep 2012, Valencia, Spain. pp.327-334. ⟨hal-00740958⟩
  • Isabelle Cojan, Jacques Rivoirard, Fabien Ors, Didier Renard. New Method for an Easy Use of Stochastic Process-Based Models Such as Flumy to Reproduce a Fluvial Meandering Reservoir. 73rd EAGE Conference, May 2011, Vienne, Austria. pp.WSP-10. ⟨hal-00599180⟩
  • Isabelle Cojan, Jacques Rivoirard, Didier Renard. From outcrop to process-based reservoir modelling of fluvial meandering systems. The key issue of parameter choice. From River to Rock Record, Jan 2009, Aberdeen, United Kingdom. pp.21. ⟨hal-00573240⟩
  • Isabelle Cojan, Cedric Beaudelot, François Geffroy, Sébastien Laratte, Didier Renard, et al.. Process-Based and Stochastic Modelling of a Fluvial Meandering System: Example of the Loranca Miocene Succession (Spain). 2008 AAPG Annual Convention & Exhibition, 2008, San Antonio, United States. pp.10. ⟨hal-00586448⟩
  • Didier Renard, Hélène Beucher, Brigitte Doligez. Heterotopic bi-categorical variables in Plurigaussian truncated simulation. VIII International Geostatistics Congress, GEOSTATS 2008, Dec 2008, Santiago, Chile. pp.289-298. ⟨hal-00579384⟩
  • Jacques Rivoirard, Isabelle Cojan, Didier Renard, François Geffroy. Advances in quantification of process-based models for meandering channelized reservoirs.. VIII International Geostatistics Congress, Geostats 2008, Santiago Chile, Dec 2008, Santiago, Chile. pp.607-616. ⟨hal-00586451⟩
  • Emily Walker, Pascal Monestiez, Didier Renard, Nicolas Bez. Kriging of the latent probability of a binomial variable: application to fish statistics. VIII International Geostatistics Congress, GEOSTATS 2008, Dec 2008, Santiago, Chile. pp.981-990. ⟨hal-00579391⟩
  • Valérie Langlais, Hélène Beucher, Didier Renard. In the shade of the truncated gaussian simulation. VIII International Geostatistics Congress, GEOSTATS 2008, Dec 2008, Santiago, Chile. pp.799-808. ⟨hal-00579375⟩
  • Isabelle Cojan, Jacques Rivoirard, Fabien Ors, Didier Renard. Evaluation of key parameters for reproducing a fluvial meandering reservoir using FLUMY, a stochastic process-based model. 18th International Sedimentological Congress - Mendoza, Argentina, 2010, Sep 2006, Mendosa, Argentina. pp.252. ⟨hal-00586576⟩

Books2 documents

  • Pierre Petitgas, Mathieu Woillez, Jacques Rivoirard, Didier Renard, Nicolas Bez. Handbook of Geostatistics in R for Fisheries and Marine Ecology. 2017. ⟨hal-01686508⟩
  • Margaret Armstrong, Alain Galli, Hélène Beucher, Gaëlle Le Loc'H, Didier Renard, et al.. Plurigaussian Simulations in Geosciences. Springer, pp.176, 2011, 978-3-642-19606-5. ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-19607-2⟩. ⟨hal-00709324⟩

Book sections2 documents

  • Hélène Beucher, Didier Renard, Matthieu Bourges. The data extension issue: geological constraints applied in geostatistical process. Perrin M. & Rainaud JF. Shared Earth Modeling: Knowledge based solutions for building and managing subsurface structural models, Technip, pp.17, 2012. ⟨hal-00777199⟩
  • Didier Renard, Chantal de Fouquet. Characterization of pesticide concentrations in the Craie du nord aquifer system. L. Chery, G. de Marsily. Aquifer systems management : Darcy's legacy in a world of impending water shortage, International Association of Hydrogeologists, chap.38 - p. 511-524, 2007. ⟨hal-00599192⟩

Other publications3 documents

Preprints, Working Papers, ...3 documents

  • Nicolas Desassis, Didier Renard, Hélène Beucher, Sylvain Petiteau, Xavier Freulon. A pairwise likelihood approach for the empirical estimation of the underlying variograms in the plurigaussian models. 2015. ⟨hal-01213962v2⟩
  • Jacques Rivoirard, Renard Didier. A specific volume to measure the spatial sampling of deposits. 2015. ⟨hal-01305760⟩
  • Nicolas Desassis, Didier Renard. Automatic variogram modeling by iterative least squares. Univariate and multivariate cases.. 2012. ⟨hal-00707887v2⟩

Reports28 documents

  • Renard Didier, Fabien Ors, Hervé Caumont. INTAROS D5.6 - Geostatistical library for iAOS - v1. [Research Report] MINES ParisTech - PSL Research University; MINES ParisTech, PSL University, Centre de géosciences. 2020. ⟨hal-03071535⟩
  • Didier Renard, Fabien Ors. INTAROS – IMR Dataset. [Research Report] MINES ParisTech - PSL Research University. 2018. ⟨hal-01820877⟩
  • Didier Renard. Bayesian framework for Multilayers . [Research Report] Mines ParisTech - Ecole des mines de Paris. 2017. ⟨hal-01558076⟩
  • Didier Renard. External Drift on Potential. [Research Report] Mines ParisTech. 2015. ⟨hal-01219867⟩
  • Didier Renard. MAF characteristics. [Research Report] Mines ParisTech. 2015. ⟨hal-01219875⟩
  • Didier Renard. Diagnostic sur cas d'étude bayésien. [Rapport de recherche] Mines ParisTech. 2015. ⟨hal-01219863⟩
  • Didier Renard. Diagnostic Bayésien. [Rapport de recherche] Mines ParisTech; Centre de Géosciences / Equipe de Géostatistique. 2015. ⟨hal-01153335⟩
  • Didier Renard. Simulation under constraints. 2014. ⟨hal-00957756⟩
  • Didier Renard, Nicolas Desassis. Experimental variogram in presence of measurement errors. 2014. ⟨hal-00957759⟩
  • Didier Renard. Instabilités dans ISATOIL. [Rapport de recherche] Mines ParisTech. 2014. ⟨hal-01219881⟩
  • Didier Renard. MultiLayers estimation with colocation. [Research Report] Mines ParisTech. 2014. ⟨hal-01219880⟩
  • Didier Renard. Multi-collocated Cokriging in Unique Neighborhood. 2014. ⟨hal-00962488⟩
  • Didier Renard, Hélène Beucher. Bayesian Kriging & Simulations. 2014. ⟨hal-00957761⟩
  • Jacques Rivoirard, Serge Antoine Séguret, Didier Renard. Geostatistical consulting, tutoring, development and implementation contract report of year 2 (2013, VALE Brazil). [Research Report] Mines ParisTech. 2014. ⟨hal-01093501⟩
  • Chantal de Fouquet, Christian Lajaunie, Didier Renard. EO4REDD Sous-traitance ARMINES. 2013. ⟨hal-00793509⟩
  • Didier Renard, Nicolas Desassis. Automatic Fitting of an intrinsic model. 2013. ⟨hal-00957760⟩
  • Didier Renard. Le modèle pour MAAFK. 2013. ⟨hal-00818957⟩
  • Jacques Rivoirard, Serge Antoine Séguret, Didier Renard. Geostatistical consulting, tutoring, development and implementation contract report of year 1 (2012, VALE Brazil). [Research Report] MINES ParisTech. 2013. ⟨hal-01093498⟩
  • Didier Renard. Effets de bords. 2012. ⟨hal-00766376⟩
  • Didier Renard, Jean-Paul Chilès, Marco Alfaro. Geostatistical Study of Jerónimo Gold Deposit (Atacama Region, Chile). 2012. ⟨hal-00797605⟩
  • Didier Renard. Multiple Acquisition Factorial Kriging. 2011. ⟨hal-00766407⟩
  • Didier Renard, Nicolas Desassis. Angle Interpolation. 2011. ⟨hal-00766401⟩
  • Fabien Ors, Didier Renard. Random Number Generator. [Technical Report] No. R090519DRFO, MINES ParisTech; ARMINES. 2009. ⟨hal-01408494⟩
  • Didier Renard. Fluid Propagation. 2009. ⟨hal-00584862⟩
  • Didier Renard. Automatic Variogram Fitting. 2009. ⟨hal-00584858⟩
  • Didier Renard. Implementation of Finite Differences in ISATIS. 2008. ⟨hal-00584847⟩
  • Didier Renard. Tests on Factorial Kriging Analysis. 2003. ⟨hal-00584859⟩
  • Didier Renard, Serge Antoine Séguret. Velocity analysis through geostatistical methods. 2000. ⟨hal-00777237⟩