[GRASSLIST:6782] Re: kriging elevation contours

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Friday 13 May 2005 06:42 am, wouter buytaert wrote:
> hello,
>
> I'd like to generate a DEM from an elevation contour map using kriging
> (with the GRASS R interface and the R gdal module). However, kriging
> uses point data as input. How do I convert a vector contour map to point
> data to use for kriging? Second, and more important (but not really
> GRASS related): which is the the optimal point density (when converting
> the vector lines to points) for obtaining good results?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wouter

What about the v.surf.rst method ? might give more realistic results...


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Dylan Beaudette
Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group
University of California at Davis
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