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Grid Despike

The Grid Despike tool allows you to remove spikes from existing grids using user defined constraints.  

General Information



Grid Selection

Select the grids you want to despike.  Left click to select a grid, or use the Ctrl key on your keyboard to select multiple grids, and then use the selection arrows to move the grids to the Selected list. Alternately, you can move a single grid to the Selected list by double clicking on it.

To help you make your grid selections, you can sort any column by left clicking on the column header, you can apply a filter (), or you can type a search string into the search bar to limit the list using Name, or Owner information.

For additional selection and navigation options right click on the list of grids to access the shortcut menu.

Grid Value Constraints

Select the criteria for identifying spikes in the grid data. Values that deviate beyond a threshold from the local mean are identified as "spikes".

Deviation Type: Select the method for identifying spikes.

Absolute: Identifies and clears points that are an absolute value away from the mean (calculated from the grid). The absolute value is determined by the Maximum Deviation value that you enter.

Percent: Identifies and clears points that are a given percentage value away from the mean (calculated from the grid). The percentage absolute value is determined by the Maximum Deviation value that you enter.

Standard Deviation: Identifies and clears points that are not within the specified number of standard deviations from the mean (calculated from the grid). The number of standard deviations is determined by the Maximum Deviation value that you enter.

Maximum Deviation:The magnitude by which a value can deviate from the mean, in units specified under Deviation Type.

Grid Size (inline/crossline): Dimensions of the bin defining the local area of a data point. The criteria for identifying "spikes" in the grid data. Values that deviate beyond a threshold from the local mean are identified as "spikes".

Filling Options

Options for filling cleared spikes. By default, spikes are cleared and grids are  left blank.

Fill Cleared values: Turn on this option to fill clear values instead of leaving grids blank, and then select the fill method.

Clip to threshold:Sets the value of a spike data point to that of the threshold it exceeded.

Interpolate values: Sets the value of a spike data point to that of the local mean.

Fill with constant value: Sets the value of a spike data point to a given value.

Constraining Polygons

Polygons: Click to open the Select Polygon dialog to use a polygon to limit the geographical extents of your despiking operation.

Apply

Before the operation can be completed you need you specify the name of the output grid.



Original Name: Name of the original grid.

Output Name: Name of the output grid. This can be left at the default "Original Name Despiked", entered manually, or selected from an existing grid in the drop down menu.


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