RSAGA (version 0.94-5)

rsaga.inverse.distance: Spatial Interpolation Methods

Description

Spatial interpolation of point data using inverse distance to a power (inverse distance weighting, IDW), nearest neighbors, or modified quadratic shephard.

Usage

rsaga.inverse.distance(in.shapefile, out.grid, field, power = 1, maxdist, nmax = 100, target, env = rsaga.env(), ...)
rsaga.nearest.neighbour(in.shapefile, out.grid, field, target, env = rsaga.env(), ...)
rsaga.modified.quadratic.shephard(in.shapefile, out.grid, field, quadratic.neighbors = 13, weighting.neighbors = 19, target, env = rsaga.env(), ...)
rsaga.triangulation(in.shapefile, out.grid, field, target, env = rsaga.env(), ...)

Arguments

in.shapefile

Input: point shapefile (default extension: .shp).

out.grid

Output: filename for interpolated grid (SAGA grid file). Existing files will be overwritten!

field

numeric or character: number or name of attribute in the shapefile's attribute table to be interpolated; the first attribute is represented by a zero.

power

numeric (>0): exponent used in inverse distance weighting (usually 1 or 2)

maxdist

numeric: maximum distance of points to be used for inverse distance interpolation (search radius); no search radius is applied when this argument is missing or equals Inf

nmax

Maximum number of nearest points to be used for interpolation; nmax=Inf is a valid value (no upper limit)

target

required argument of type list: parameters identifying the target area, e.g. the x/y extent and cellsize, or name of a reference grid; see rsaga.target.

env

RSAGA geoprocessing environment created by rsaga.env, required because module(s) depend(s) on SAGA version

...

Optional arguments to be passed to rsaga.geoprocessor, including the env RSAGA geoprocessing environment.

quadratic.neighbors

integer >=5; default 13.

weighting.neighbors

integer >=3; default 19.

Details

These functions use modules from the grid_gridding SAGA GIS library. They do not support SAGA GIS 2.0.4, which differs in some argument names and parameterizations. Target grid parameterization by grid file name currently doesn't work with SAGA GIS 2.1.0 Release Candidate 1 (see also rsaga.target); stay tuned for future updates and fixes.

References

QSHEP2D: Fortran routines implementing the Quadratic Shepard method for bivariate interpolation of scattered data (see R. J. Renka, ACM TOMS 14 (1988) pp.149-150). Classes: E2b. Interpolation of scattered, non-gridded multivariate data.

See Also

rsaga.target; idw in package gstat.