Bicubic Spline Interpolation as a Method for Treatment of Potential Field Data
Bicubic Spline Interpolation as a Method for Treatment of Potential Field Data
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DOI:
10.1190/1.1440019
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发表时间:
1969-06
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影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
B. Bhattacharyya
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作者:
B. Bhattacharyya
A method for the generation of bicubic spline functions is presented in this paper. From this method it becomes apparent that these functions derive their potential strength in accurate and reliable representation of two‐dimensional data by maintaining continuity of the variable and its slope and curvature throughout the area of observation. The results obtained by computing horizontal and vertical derivatives with model and field data illustrate the exceptional accuracy achieved with spline functions. The piecewise cubic polynomial functions expressing observed data analytically in space are used to estimate amplitude and phase spectra of magnetic anomalies. At relatively long wavelengths the amplitude spectrum thus calculated displays remarkable similarity with the true spectrum and is found to be superior to that obtained with two‐dimensional Fourier series expansion. A cubic spline method is also presented for computing values of an observed variable at equispaced points along two orthogonal direction...