The best definition I know of "moving average" is:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MovingAverage.html
In Meteorology, the "one pass Cressman" (which applies a distance-based,
non-linear weight to all observation points within a "circle of
influence") demonstrates this -- it is essentially an inverse
distance-weighted average of all the data points where the weight is > 0.
A more sophisticated extension was introduce by Barnes, and involves
multiple passes through the data (see Barnes 1994 article in Journal of
Atmos and Oceanic Technology).
tom
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, gaoming fu wrote:
>
> Hello, All
>
> Recently some one told me that Moving average is another good way for
> interpolation. But I have no idea about it. Does VisAD suppor it?
>
> For example, for an area of 10 by 10 m, I have some irregular points (with x,
> y,
> and z).
> Now I want to draw the surface using a grid with cell size of 1 m. First I
> have to
> interpolate
> these grid points to get the z values (this can be easily done using
> WEIGHTED_AVERAGE
> and NEAREST_NEIGHBOR methods in VisAD), then draw those grid points. Now I
> want to
> try the so called "Moving average" approach. The purpose is to get a smooth
> surface so that it is very close to the real topography visually.
>
> Any help will be highly apprecaited.
>
> Gaoming Fu
>
>
>
>
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