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geo (version 1.4-3)

pointkriging: interpolates regularly spaced data on a grid.

Description

The function interpolates regularly spaced data on a grid. The program uses inverse distance method that takes clustering into account. Under certain conditions this method can be called kriging. For each gridpoint the program looks for neighbourhood points according to certain criteria. The program has a possibility to prevent smearing data out from one area to another where it is not wanted like between two fjords. The program has the possibility of universal kriging with the drift in lat,lon or due to an external variable.

Usage

pointkriging(lat, lon, z, xgr, vagram, maxnumber = 16, scale = "km", option = 1, maxdist = 0, rat = 3, nb = 8, set = 0, areas = 0, varcalc = F, sill = 0, minnumber = 2, suboption = 1, outside = T, degree = 0, lognormal = F, zeroset = F)

Arguments

lat
Latitude of datapoints.
lon
Longitude of datapoints.
z
Values at datapoints.
xgr
Description of the grid. Can be output from program grid or just a list with components \$lat and \$lon.
vagram
Components of the variogram, a list with a least 3 components, \$sill, \$nugget & \$rang1.
maxnumber
Number of neighbourhood points used , default is 16. In some cases 16 points are not found.
scale
Scale "km" or "miles", default is "miles".
option
Option used for selecting neighbourhood points. Allowed values 1,2,3 and 4. Default value is one. For further information see below.
maxdist
If option = 4 all points within maxdist are used. If option = 4 the default value of maxdist is the range of the variogram. maxdist has also meaning when option = 1,2 or 3. In those cases points further away from any datapoint than maxdist are set to zero, mean z or NA.
rat
The number of points in the first step of the search is rat*maxnumber.
nb
Parameter describing the extent of the area where neighbourhood points are searched in the first round. Default value is 8 which means that and area of 16x16 gridpoints is searched.
set
Points outside region or further away than maxdist from any datapoint are set to either zero (set=0) or mean(z) set=1 or NA set =-1.
areas
A list defining a number of areas. NA is between areas. Points in different areas are treated as independed. Two neighbourhood fjords could be defined as different areas so the program does not interpolate between them.
varcalc
If varcalc is true the estimation variance at each datapoint is calculated. Default value is F.
sill
Sill in variance calculations. Default value is the sill of the variogram.
minnumber
If number of neighbourhood points found is less than or equal to minnumber the point is considered outside the areas covered by the datapoints and set to NA,0 or mean(z)
suboption
If option = 4 and more than maxnumber points are found in the area the program switches to option 1, 2 or 3 in the point search. Default value is 1.
outside
If outside is T points further away from the area than nb*dx are excluded. dx is the grid interval. Too many points outside of the area can problems in the search because the grid is used to divide the area in squares and everything left and below the first gridpoint is for example one square.
degree
Degree of drift polynomial for universal kriging. 0, 1 or 2. Default 0.
lognormal
To be described.
zeroset
To be described.

Value

A vector with the calculated values at the gridpoints.

Side Effects

The program is partly written in C so if it crashes Splus is exited.

See Also

variogram, variofit, grid, geocontour.fill.

Examples

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