3D Bathymetry -Part 3- Build a 3D map

Introduction. The kriging interpolation model conducted in part 2 of this article resulted in approximately one million water depth interpolated observations covering the entire area surveyed by the vessel. We have been able to create a simple 2D bathymetry map using the output of the kriging interpolation and now we can follow a few last steps for generating a 3D bathymetry map. Part 3 - Build a 3D map First of all, let’s convert our SpatialPixelDataFrame object created with kriging interpolation to a data frame with 3 columns : X (easting), Y (northing), and Depths (Water depth). ...

3D Bathymetry -Part 2- Kriging

Introduction. In the first part of this article we managed to generate a sampling grid matching the contour of the surveyed area,starting from a data frame containing spatial metrics. This sampling grid will be implemented when building the krige function available with the gstat library. Part 2 - Kriging In a nutshell, Kriging is a geostatistical method which : measures spatial variability of a geographic data attribute. allows to predict or estimate the value at the location where the true value is unknown. ...