A Spatial Interpolation of Meteorological Parameters considering Geographic Semantics

Spatial interpolation of meteorological parameters, closely related to the earth surface, plays important roles in climatological study. However, most of traditional spatial interpolation methods ignore the geographic semantics of interpolation sample points in practical application. This paper atte...

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Main Authors: Wenjun Wu, Ruijie Gan, Junli Li, Xiu Cao, Xinxin Ye, Jie Zhang, Hongjiao Qu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020-01-01
Series:Advances in Meteorology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/9185283
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Summary:Spatial interpolation of meteorological parameters, closely related to the earth surface, plays important roles in climatological study. However, most of traditional spatial interpolation methods ignore the geographic semantics of interpolation sample points in practical application. This paper attempts to propose an improved inverse-distance weighting interpolation algorithm considering geographic semantics (S-IDW), which adds geographic semantic similarity to the traditional IDW formula and adjusts weight coefficient. In the interpolation process, the geographic semantic differences between sample points and estimation points are considered comprehensively. In this study, 3 groups of land surface temperature data from 2 different areas were selected for experiments, and several commonly used spatial interpolation methods were compared. Experimental results indicated that S-IDW outperformed IDW and several existing spatial interpolation methods, but there were also some abnormal value and interpolation outliers. This method provides a new insight toward the estimation accuracy, data missing, and error correction of spatial attributes related to meteorological parameters.
ISSN:1687-9309
1687-9317