Lubos Mitas, Helena Mitasova

Comparison of interpolations using visualization and topographic analysis

Visualization of interpolated fields using 2D raster maps with contours and surfaces in a projection of 3D space:

Inverse distance weighting method:
2D map and 3D view
Kriging:
2D map and 3D view
Topogrid - spline with tension and stream enforcement applied to point data:
2D map and 3D view
Topogrid applied to contour data:
2D map and 3D view, curvatures: profile and tangential
Regularized spline with tension (RST):
2D map and 3D view, curvatures: profile and tangential
RST with low tension and smoothing:
2D map and 3D view, curvatures: profile and tangential

Back to the main paper:
ROLE OF DYNAMIC CARTOGRAPHY IN SIMULATIONS OF LANDSCAPE PROCESSES BASED ON MULTI-VARIATE FIELDS
by L. Mitas, W.M. Brown and H. Mitasova

Accepted to:
Computers and Geosciences, special issue on exploratory cartographic visualization, November 1996