Importing interpolated data

[Ben Horner-Johnson]

> From: Henk Coetzee <henkc at geoscience.org.za>
> Subject: Importing interpolated data
 
> I am looking for ways of importing already interpolated data from
> Generic Mapping Tools (gmt) which uses the NetCDF data format. Grass's
> interpolation tools are good, but I find them extremely slow, compared
> to the tools from gmt. The nature of the gmt algorithms is such that I
> could produce perfectly matching regions. Is there a way to do this? An
> alternative would be to write the data back to x,y,z values from the
> grid, bring it in as a site file and write that to a raster. Any ideas??

How about using the GMT command "grdreformat" to create a Sun standard
8-bit rasterfile and then trying to import that instead of the grd2xyz
approach you mention above.  (GMT-3.3.1 is current, but I think grdreformat
goes back to GMT-3.1.)

Ben Horner-Johnson
ben at earth.nwu.edu