Creating Bathymetry Maps With Coarse Data - Bayesian Kriging Using Open Source Tools

Hal Koike
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI

3D GIS
Monday March 5, 2012 - 3:15 to 4:30 pm

Demonstration of conditional simulation (using Bayesian statistics) to estimate the depth values from the point depth data derived from navigational charts. The methods outlined use open source tools (GeoR, R, GRASS) to generate spatial products.