Angular Distance Weighted (ADW) grid interpolation from irregular distributed points.
References:
Shepard, D. (1968): A Two-Dimensional Interpolation Function for Irregularly-Spaced Data. Proceedings of the 1968 23rd ACM National Conference, pp.517-524, online.
| Name | Type | Identifier | Description | Constraints |
Input | Points | Shapes (input) | SHAPES | - | - |
Target System (*) | Grid (optional input) | TARGET_TEMPLATE | use this grid's system for output grids | - |
Output | Target Grid | Grid (output) | TARGET_OUT_GRID | - | - |
Options | Attribute | Table field | FIELD | - | - |
Target Grid System | Choice | TARGET_DEFINITION | - | Available Choices: [0] user defined [1] grid or grid system Default: 0 |
Cellsize | Floating point | TARGET_USER_SIZE | - | Minimum: 0.000000 Default: 1.000000 |
Left | Floating point | TARGET_USER_XMIN | - | Default: 0.000000 |
Right | Floating point | TARGET_USER_XMAX | - | Default: 100.000000 |
Bottom | Floating point | TARGET_USER_YMIN | - | Default: 0.000000 |
Top | Floating point | TARGET_USER_YMAX | - | Default: 100.000000 |
Fit | Choice | TARGET_USER_FITS | - | Available Choices: [0] nodes [1] cells Default: 0 |
Grid System | Grid system | TARGET_SYSTEM | - | - |
Search Range | Choice | SEARCH_RANGE | - | Available Choices: [0] local [1] global Default: 0 |
Maximum Search Distance | Floating point | SEARCH_RADIUS | local maximum search distance given in map units | Minimum: 0.000000 Default: 1000.000000 |
Number of Points | Choice | SEARCH_POINTS_ALL | - | Available Choices: [0] maximum number of nearest points [1] all points within search distance Default: 0 |
Minimum | Integer | SEARCH_POINTS_MIN | minimum number of points to use | Minimum: 1 Default: -1 |
Maximum | Integer | SEARCH_POINTS_MAX | maximum number of nearest points | Minimum: 1 Default: 20 |
Direction | Choice | SEARCH_DIRECTION | - | Available Choices: [0] all directions [1] quadrants Default: 0 |
Weighting Function | Choice | DW_WEIGHTING | - | Available Choices: [0] no distance weighting [1] inverse distance to a power [2] exponential [3] gaussian weighting Default: 1 |
Inverse Distance Weighting Power | Floating point | DW_IDW_POWER | - | Minimum: 0.000000 Default: 2.000000 |
Inverse Distance Offset | Boolean | DW_IDW_OFFSET | Calculates weights for distance plus one, avoiding division by zero for zero distances | Default: 0 |
Gaussian and Exponential Weighting Bandwidth | Floating point | DW_BANDWIDTH | - | Minimum: 0.000000 Default: 1.000000 |
(*) optional |