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presentation by
Fehmi Kamcili
February 10,
2001
gridding by specifing
source file
-Spreadsheets
(Excel)
-manually in Surfer
(Worksheet)
gridding method
accuracy of grid
faults and breaklines
creates file.grd
Inv. Distance to
power
Kriging
Minimum curvature
Modified shepards
Natural neighbor
Nearest neighbor
Polynomial regression
Radial basis function
Triangulation w/
linear interpolation
-2 9 0 5 .1 9 3 3
-2 9 0 5 .1 9 3 3
-2 9 0 5 .1 9 3 3
-2 9 0 5 .1 9 3 3
-2 9 0 5 .1 9 3 4
-2 9 0 5 .1 9 3 4
-2 9 0 5 .1 9 3 4
-2 9 0 5 .1 9 3 4
-2 9 0 5 .1 9 3 4
-2 9 0 5 .1 9 3 5
-2 9 0 5 .1 9 3 5
-2 9 0 5 .1 9 3 5
-2 9 0 5 .1 9 3 5
-2 9 0 5 .1 9 3 5
-2 9 0 5 .1 9 3 6
-2 8 6 0
-2 8 7 0
-2 8 8 0
-2 8 9 0
-2 9 0 0
-2 9 1 0
-2 9 2 0
-2 9 3 0
-2 9 4 0
-2 9 5 0
-2 9 6 0
-2 9 7 0
Fig.: Power: 2
Inverse Distance to a
Power
weighting average
interpolator
Power parameter
between 1E-38 & 38
0 = planar surface;
great weighting
power = less effect
on points far from
the grid node during
interpolation
-2 8 6 0
-2 8 7 0
-2 8 8 0
-2 8 9 0
-2 9 0 0
-2 9 1 0
-2 9 2 0
-2 9 3 0
-2 9 4 0
-2 9 5 0
-2 9 6 0
-2 9 7 0
-2 9 8 0
-2 8 7 5
-2 8 8 0
-2 8 8 5
-2 8 9 0
-2 8 9 5
-2 9 0 0
-2 9 0 5
-2 9 1 0
-2 9 1 5
-2 9 2 0
-2 9 2 5
-2 9 3 0
-2 9 3 5
-2 9 4 0
-2 9 4 5
-2 9 5 0
-2 9 5 5
Inverse Distance to a
Power
exact or smoothing
interpolator
generate "bull'seyes
-smoothing reduce
this effect
very fast method
for gridding
-till 500 Datapoints
Fig.: with
smoothing: 0.01
-2 9 6 0
-2 9 6 5
-2 8 9 0
-2 9 0 0
-2 9 1 0
-2 9 2 0
-2 9 3 0
-2 9 4 0
-2 9 5 0
-2 9 6 0
-2 9 7 0
-2 9 8 0
express trends
suggested in your
data
Point or Block
-Block is using
average valuessmoother; not perfect
specify & add as
many variogramcomponents as
wished
-2 8 6 0
-2 8 8 0
-2 9 0 0
-2 9 2 0
-2 9 4 0
-2 9 6 0
-2 9 8 0
-3 0 0 0
-3 0 2 0
-3 0 4 0
-3 0 6 0
-3 0 8 0
-3 1 0 0
-3 1 2 0
-3 1 4 0
-3 1 6 0
Fig.: default
-2 8 0 0
-2 8 5 0
-2 9 0 0
-2 9 5 0
-3 0 0 0
-3 0 5 0
-3 1 0 0
-3 1 5 0
-3 2 0 0
-3 2 5 0
-3 3 0 0
-2 9 0 0
-2 9 5 0
-3 0 0 0
-3 0 5 0
-3 1 0 0
-3 1 5 0
-3 2 0 0
-3 2 5 0
-3 3 0 0
-3 3 5 0
Fig.: 2
-3 4 0 0
Modified Shepards
Method
Like IDP Method
exact or smoothing
Weighting and
Quadratic Neighbors
parameters
specifies size
(number) of local
neighborhood
Fig.1: Q13/W19;
Fig.2: Q40/W60
Natural Neighbor
-2 8 6 0
-2 8 7 0
-2 8 8 0
-2 8 9 0
-2 9 0 0
-2 9 1 0
-2 9 2 0
-2 9 3 0
-2 9 4 0
-2 9 5 0
-2 9 6 0
-2 9 7 0
-2 9 8 0
Fig.: default
Natural Neighbor
interpolation
algorithm uses a
weighted average
of neighboring
observations,
where the weights
are proportional
to new added
polygons
Nearest Neighbor
-2 8 6 0
-2 8 7 0
-2 8 8 0
-2 8 9 0
-2 9 0 0
-2 9 1 0
-2 9 2 0
-2 9 3 0
-2 9 4 0
-2 9 5 0
-2 9 6 0
-2 9 7 0
-2 9 8 0
Fig.: default
assigns value of
the nearest point
to each grid node
useful when data
are already
evenly spaced
this method is
effective for
filling missing
values
-2 8 7 5
-2 8 8 0
-2 8 8 5
-2 8 9 0
-2 8 9 5
-2 9 0 0
-2 9 0 5
-2 9 1 0
-2 9 1 5
-2 9 2 0
-2 9 2 5
-2 9 3 0
-2 9 3 5
-2 8 4 0
-2 8 5 0
-2 8 6 0
-2 8 7 0
-2 8 8 0
-2 8 9 0
-2 9 0 0
-2 9 1 0
-2 9 2 0
-2 9 3 0
-2 9 4 0
-2 9 5 0
Fig.: 2
-2 9 6 0
Polynomial
Regression
used to define
large-scale trends &
patterns
not real interpolator
(does not predict
unknown Z values)
Fig.1: Simple planar
surface; Fig.2: Bilinear saddle
-2 8 7 0
-2 8 8 0
-2 8 9 0
-2 9 0 0
-2 9 1 0
-2 9 2 0
-2 9 3 0
-2 9 4 0
-2 9 5 0
-2 9 6 0
-2 9 7 0
-2 9 8 0
-2 9 9 0
-3 0 0 0
-3 0 1 0
-3 0 2 0
-3 0 3 0
-3 0 4 0
-3 0 5 0
Radial Basis
Function
1. Inverse
Multiquadric
2. Multilog
3. Multiquadric
4. Natural Cubic
Spline
5. Thin plate Spline
1.; 2.; 4.- error
5.- good; 3.- best
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
Fig.: 3. Multiquadric
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0
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0
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0
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0
5
Radial Basis
Function
all exact
interpolators
+ smoothing
factor
= variogram in K.
(mathematically
specifies spatial
variability of data
set & resulting
grid file
Fig.: default
Best Results
-2 8 6 0
-2 8 7 0
-2 8 8 0
-2 8 9 0
-2 9 0 0
-2 9 1 0
-2 9 2 0
-2 9 3 0
-2 9 4 0
-2 9 5 0
-2 9 6 0
-2 9 7 0
-2 9 8 0
Best Results
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8
8
8
8
8
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9
9
9
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9
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9
0
0
1
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0
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Conclusion