[R-sig-Geo] using IDW with anisotropy

Paul Hiemstra paul.hiemstra at knmi.nl
Fri Mar 18 08:37:21 CET 2011


Hi,

You could also opt for kriging, which supports anisotropy. The intamap
package has a function to detect anisotropy, in case you would like to
automate the interpolation.

cheers,
Paul

On 03/18/2011 01:41 AM, smurray at worldbank.org wrote:
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> Thanks for the reply. I was planning to generate a surface for each
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> > I have a timseries dataset of monthly precip data from rain guages.
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> > is relatively sparse (approx 30 stations covering the country) and
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> > strong anisotropy in the data - at the monthly timestep data is
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> > correlated in the E-W direction. Is there any way to use modify the IDW
> > interpolation in gstat, to incorporate a directional bias in the
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