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<h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
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<em>r.surf.idw</em> fills a grid cell (raster) matrix with
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-interpolated values generated from a set of input layer
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+interpolated values generated from input raster
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data points. It uses a numerical approximation technique
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based on distance squared weighting of the values of
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nearest data points. The number of nearest data points used
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<p>The <b>npoints</b> parameter defines the number of nearest data points used
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to determine the interpolated value of an output raster cell.
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-<A NAME="notes.html"></a>
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<h2>NOTES</h2>
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<em>r.surf.idw</em> is a surface generation utility which
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uses inverse distance squared weighting (as described in
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-<b>Applied Geostatistics</b> by E. H. Isaaks and R. M.
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+<i>Applied Geostatistics</i> by E. H. Isaaks and R. M.
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Srivastava, Oxford University Press, 1989) to assign
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interpolated values. The implementation includes a
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customized data structure somewhat akin to a sparse matrix
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geodesic.
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<p>
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-Unlike <em><a href="r.surf.idw2.html">r.surf.idw2</a></em>, which processes
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+Unlike <em><a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/addons/r.surf.idw2.html">r.surf.idw2</a></em> (addons), which processes
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all input data points in each interpolation cycle, <em>r.surf.idw</em>
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attempts to minimize the number of input data for which distances must be
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calculated. Execution speed is therefore a function of the search effort,
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<p>
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<em>r.surf.idw</em> will generally outperform
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-<em><a href="r.surf.idw2.html">r.surf.idw2</a></em> except when the input data
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+<em>r.surf.idw2</em> except when the input data
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layer contains few non-zero data, i.e. when the cost of the search exceeds
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the cost of the additional distance calculations performed by
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-<em><a href="r.surf.idw2.html">r.surf.idw2</a></em>. The relative performance
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+<em>r.surf.idw2</em>. The relative performance
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of these utilities will depend on the comparative speed of boolean, integer
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and floating point operations on a particular platform.
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for the former may include unacceptable nonconformities in
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the surface pattern.
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+<a name="minuse.html"></a>
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<p>
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-The <A NAME="minuse.html"><b>-e</b></a> flag option provides a standard
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+The <b>-e</b> flag option provides a standard
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surface-generation error analysis facility. It produces an output raster map
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of the difference of interpolated values minus input values for those cells
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whose input data are non-zero. For each interpolation cycle, the known value
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<h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
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-<em><a href="r.surf.contour.html">r.surf.contour</a></em>,
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-<em><a href="r.surf.idw2.html">r.surf.idw2</a></em>,
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-<em><a href="r.surf.gauss.html">r.surf.gauss</a></em>,
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-<em><a href="r.surf.fractal.html">r.surf.fractal</a></em>,
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-<em><a href="r.surf.random.html">r.surf.random</a></em>,
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-<em><a href="v.surf.idw.html">v.surf.idw</a></em>,
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-<em><a href="v.surf.rst.html">v.surf.rst</a></em>
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-
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+<em>
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+ <a href="r.surf.contour.html">r.surf.contour</a>,
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+ <a href="r.surf.gauss.html">r.surf.gauss</a>,
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+ <a href="r.surf.fractal.html">r.surf.fractal</a>,
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+ <a href="r.surf.random.html">r.surf.random</a>,
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+ <a href="v.surf.idw.html">v.surf.idw</a>,
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+ <a href="v.surf.rst.html">v.surf.rst</a>
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+</em>
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<h2>AUTHOR</h2>
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@@ -98,4 +98,5 @@ U.S. EPA Environmental Research Laboratory <br>
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200 S.W. 35th Street, JSB <br>
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Corvallis, OR 97333
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-<p><i>Last changed: $Date$</i>
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+<p>
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+<i>Last changed: $Date$</i>
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