“…To get a more detailed spatial modeling, geostatistical tools and methods can be used. In the past two decades, kriging and conditional simulation have been applied to the prediction of RQD (Ozturk and Nasuf, 2002;Madani and Asghari, 2013;Ozturk and Simdi, 2014;Séguret and Guajardo, 2015), UCS (Abdideh et al, 2014;Doostmohammadi et al, 2015), RMR (Choi and Park, 2002;Oh et al, 2004;Stavropoulou et al, 2007;Choi et al, 2009;Jeon et al, 2009;Egaña and Ortiz, 2013;Ferrari et al, 2014;Pinheiro et al, 2016aPinheiro et al, , 2016bSantos et al, 2018), GSI (Deisman et al, 2013;Ozturk and Simdi, 2014), Q (Exadaktylos and Stavropoulou, 2008), P10 (Ellefmo and Eidsvik, 2009;Séguret et al, 2014) and P32 (Hekmatnejad et al, 2017).…”