| Re: Maps and interpolation w/ invalid data points [message #65955] |
Mon, 30 March 2009 11:49 |
David Fanning
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mankoff writes:
> Yeah I don't follow my reasoning either :). Duh.
Oh, well, it's Monday. I'd say maybe cut back just
a skosch on the margaritas over the weekend. ;-)
Cheers,
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming (www.dfanning.com)
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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| Re: Maps and interpolation w/ invalid data points [message #65956 is a reply to message #65955] |
Mon, 30 March 2009 11:24  |
mankoff
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On Mar 30, 2:12 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> mankoff writes:
>> I'm having trouble with making smoothed maps with invalid data points.
>> I'm able to produce maps with grayed invalid boxes when there is no
>> smoothing (bilinear=0 in map_image). I'm able to produce interpolated
>> images without getting the rainbows around the invalid points by using
>> TRIANGULATE and TRIGRID.
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>> But I'm having trouble combining these two techniques.
>
>> My input data is 72 by 44, so map_image replicates most of the data
>> points when returning an array around 500 by 300. If /BILINEAR is set
>> then I get rainbows around the invalid data points. If it is not set,
>> and I run my triangulate & trigrid algorithm it doesn't have much
>> effect due to the repetition of similar values due to the enlarged
>> warped array. Setting MIN_VALUE and MISSING keywords to map_image
>> doesn't help either.
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>> It seems like if I set the output size of the map to be tiny, so that
>> map_image did not enlarge the array, then it would work. If producing
>> postscript I could blow it up after and it would still look good. But
>> this seems like a strange workaround.
>
> I don't follow the reasoning here. Wouldn't you fix
> the small 72 by 44 image with your Triangulate and Trigrid
> method first, then warp this into your map space with Map_Image?
>
> Cheers,
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> David
>
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming (www.dfanning.com)
> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
Yeah I don't follow my reasoning either :). Duh.
Thanks,
-k.
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| Re: Maps and interpolation w/ invalid data points [message #65958 is a reply to message #65956] |
Mon, 30 March 2009 11:12 |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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mankoff writes:
> I'm having trouble with making smoothed maps with invalid data points.
> I'm able to produce maps with grayed invalid boxes when there is no
> smoothing (bilinear=0 in map_image). I'm able to produce interpolated
> images without getting the rainbows around the invalid points by using
> TRIANGULATE and TRIGRID.
>
> But I'm having trouble combining these two techniques.
>
> My input data is 72 by 44, so map_image replicates most of the data
> points when returning an array around 500 by 300. If /BILINEAR is set
> then I get rainbows around the invalid data points. If it is not set,
> and I run my triangulate & trigrid algorithm it doesn't have much
> effect due to the repetition of similar values due to the enlarged
> warped array. Setting MIN_VALUE and MISSING keywords to map_image
> doesn't help either.
>
> It seems like if I set the output size of the map to be tiny, so that
> map_image did not enlarge the array, then it would work. If producing
> postscript I could blow it up after and it would still look good. But
> this seems like a strange workaround.
I don't follow the reasoning here. Wouldn't you fix
the small 72 by 44 image with your Triangulate and Trigrid
method first, then warp this into your map space with Map_Image?
Cheers,
David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming (www.dfanning.com)
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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