Module 7: Surface Interpolation

This week we were tasked with creating five images of interpolated surfaces from a single site located at the Volcán Barú, Panama and three images from the Machalilla Regional Settlement.  The interpolation methods used were Kernal Density, Kriging, IDW (Inverse Distance Weighted), Natural Neighbor, and Spline.

Shovel test data was taken in .txt format and reformatted to .xls as well as a .dxl for the AutoCAD section. We then had to update the information in those files in order for ArcMap to understand the data and not produce errors.  Additionally I really enjoyed getting more first hand knowledge of the tools within ArcToolbox.