[gdal-dev] "reboxing," or 3D regridding

[Newcomb, Doug]

Tom,
Would the GRASS 3D Raster (Voxel) functions meet your needs?

http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/raster3D.html

Doug

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche at pobox.com> wrote:

>
> summary: I'd appreciate advice regarding tools and methods for
> transforming values from an unprojected global 3D spatial grid to a
> projected 3D grid with different horizontal and vertical resolution, or
> pointers to other resources to consult.
>
> details:
>
> I have output from a global atmospheric model that I'd like to use as
> initial and boundary conditions for a regional model. The global input
> netCDF has dimensions=2.5° lon x 1.875° lat x 56 vertical levels. The
> regional model runs over North America using a 12-km grid projected
> Lambert Comformal Conic (LCC), with 34 vertical levels. Since its top
> height is less than that of the global input, the extents of the output
> domain are fully contained within the input domain.
>
> Each box or voxel defined by the global input grid contains an estimate
> for the N2O concentration for that volume. From those I want to compute
> the concentrations for each output gridbox volume. I'd appreciate your
> recommendations for tools that can handle this usecase. Particularly, is
> this something that gdalwarp can do?
>
> FWIW, the best tool I've seen so far is R package=gstat, but (IIUC)
>
> - gstat expects projected input. I'm not sure if I can work around that
>   for this usecase.
>
> - as the name implies, 'gstat' is doing geostatistics, e.g., variogram-
>   and covariance-based modeling. I'm not sure either how to setup the
>   distance weighting for my scenario, and, frankly, I remain unconvinced
>   that a statistical approach is necessary for this application (though
>   it may be a sufficient or the best-available approach). This may be
>   due to my statistical ignorance, however.
>
> your assistance is appreciated, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche at pobox.com>
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