[GRASS-user] Interpolating rainfall data across area from points

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 24 Sep 2018, Rich Shepard wrote:

> Please provide some thoughts on the work flow to do this within GRASS. I'm
> digging into the gstat docs to get a sense of how to do this within R (and
> I have the rgrass7 package working well; it imported the GRASS county
> boundary map which I converted to a SpatialPolygonDataFrame.)

   I have run v.surf.tps on the point map of 58 reporting stations and am
having difficulty understanding the output. I suspect that because my data
does not consist of evenly spaced sparsed points, I've accepted the default
thinning of 1.5, and I don't (yet) have a DEM covering the entire county the
output is not as usable as it could be. (I've changed the region's
resolution to 100m.)

   Regardless, I'm asking for input from those who have experience with the
geostatistical modules on how to determine the most appropriate one for a
given data set. I see that v.krige[1], v.kriging, and v.surf.tps are available
and my lack of experiences with all of these hinders my making an informed
decision.

   Pointers to relevant documentation, as well as other advice, will be much
appreciated.

TIA,

Rich

[1] The rpy2 dependency for v.krige is not yet available for R-3.5.1.