An Adaptive Local Procedure to Approximate Unevenly Distributed Data

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  • Mira Bozzini Università di Milano Bicocca
  • Licia Lenarduzzi Mi IMATI CNR

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https://doi.org/10.1685/

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Polyharmonic functions##common.commaListSeparator## Shepard's method##common.commaListSeparator## interpolation##common.commaListSeparator## adaptivity##common.commaListSeparator## unevenly distributed data.

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We propose an adaptive local procedure, which uses the modified Shepard’s method with local polyharmonic interpolants. The aim is to reconstruct, in a faithful way, a function known by a large and highly irregularly distributed sample. Such a problem is generally related to the recovering of geophysical surfaces, where the sample is measured according to the behaviour of the surface. The adaptive local procedure is used to calculate, by an efficient algorithm, an interpolating polyharmonic function, when a very large sample is assigned. When we consider a sample of size N < 104, we propose an approximating polyharmonic function obtained by combining adaptively a global interpolant, relevant to a subset of the data, with local adaptive interpolants. The goodness of the approximating functions in two different cases is shown by real examples. [DOI: 10.1685/CSC09260] About DOI

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2009-08-12

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##issue.vol## 3 (2009)

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