Abstract: This article presents a case of application of geostatistical methods in geotechnical engineering: There is a railway platform, going to be built on compressible soils which presents important settlement. Geotechnical data were analyzed by a geostatistical approach using GIS software to characterize the spatial variability of the thickness of the compressible soils and their deformation Module. Then these data were crossed with settlement calculations by oedometer method to estimate the distribution of soil compaction on the entire site.
Key words: Morocco, Kenitra, geotechnical studies, settlement, geostatistics, kriging.
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