Trend Surface Analysis
Trend Surface Analysis
Trend Surface Analysis
Transformation
Point-in-polygon
Town buffer
River buffer
Other spatial analysis methods
• Centrographic analysis (mean center)
• Dispersion measures (stand. Dist)
• Point clustering measures (NNS)
• Moran’s I: Spatial autocorrelation (Clustering of
neighboring values)
• Fragmentation and fractional dimension
• Spatial optimization
– Point
– Route
• Spatial interpolation
Moran’s I
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Spatial autocorrelation
• Correlation of a field with itself
Low
High
Maximum
Spatial optimization
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Spatial interpolation
Linear interpolation
C
B
A
Nonlinear Interpolation
• Matlab/Fotran/Phython/C++
1. Trend Surface cont.
• flat but TILTED plane to fit data
– surface is approximated by linear
equation (polynomial degree 1)
– z = a + bx + cy
• tilted but WARPED plane to fit data
– surface is approximated by quadratic
equation (polynomial degree 2)
– z = a + bx + cy + dx2 + exy + fy2
Trend Surfaces
2. Minimum Curvature Splines
• Fits a minimum-curvature surface through input
points
• Like bending a sheet of rubber to pass through
points
– While minimizing curvature of that sheet
• repeatedly applies a smoothing equation
(piecewise polynomial) to the surface
– Resulting surface passes through all points
• best for gently varying surfaces, not for rugged
ones (can overshoot data values)
3. Distance Weighted Methods
3. Inverse Distance Weighted
• Each input point has local influence that
diminishes with distance
• estimates are averages of values at n known
points within window R
Power of distance
4 sectors
Cross validation
• removing one of the n observation points and using the remaining n-1 points
to predict its value.
• Error = observed - predicted
Result
4. Kriging
• Assumes distance or direction betw. sample points shows
a spatial correlation that help describe the surface
• Fits function to
– Specified number of points OR
– All points within a window of specified radius
• Based on an analysis of the data, then an application of
the results of this analysis to interpolation
• Most appropriate when you already know about spatially
correlated distance or directional bias in data
• Involves several steps
– Exploratory statistical analysis of data
– Variogram modeling
– Creating the surface based on variogram
Kriging
• Breaks up topography into 3 elements: Drift (general trend),
small deviations from the drift and random noise.
To be stepped over
Explore with Trend analysis
• You may wish to remove
a trend from the dataset
before using kriging. The
Trend Analysis tool can
help identify global
trends in the input
dataset.
Kriging Results
• Once the variogram has been developed, it
is used to estimate distance weights for
interpolation
• Computationally very intensive w/ lots of
data points
• Estimation of the variogram complex
– No one method is absolute best
– Results never absolute, assumptions about
distance, directional bias
Kriging Example