[Manifold-l] Surfer .GRD import

[M Roseveare]

No, the incoming data is in metres, assigned projection is 'orthographic'
and it comes out squished... I'm not reprojecting to anything either.


Martin Roseveare
Senior Geophysicist

 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Pat Waggaman [mailto:waggaman at marimsys.com] 
Sent: 03 May 2007 17:53
To: m.roseveare at archaeophysica.co.uk; manifold-l at directionsmedia.net
Subject: RE: [Manifold-l] Surfer .GRD import

Are the data in Lat Long?  What units & what 
projection is incoming data and output data?

Does the squishing appear when you project in Manifold to Lat Long?

You´re getting data which is presumably gathered 
at a constant distance interval, that, when 
translated to Lat Long, causes the apparent squishing.

Pat

At 12:37 03-05-2007, M Roseveare wrote:
>Thanks Pat,
>
>The problem occurs though in orthographic projection - long and lat don't
>come into it unfortunately! The data starts off as orthographic and remains
>so and hence no distortion should happen. The actual squishing seems to
>relate to the ratio of the resolutions in the grid. However, changing scale
>factors etc has no affect.
>
>
>
>
>Martin Roseveare
>Senior Geophysicist
>
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Pat Waggaman [mailto:waggaman at marimsys.com]
>Sent: 03 May 2007 17:27
>To: m.roseveare at archaeophysica.co.uk; manifold-l at directionsmedia.net
>Subject: Re: [Manifold-l] Surfer .GRD import
>
>In bathymetry, back when we were doing a lot of it - we needed the
>same Surfer to Manifold integration.
>
>Our workaround - and this is several Manifold versions ago - was to
>export CSV from Surfer and then import those tables into Manifold.
>
>East - West "squishing will occur with the cos(Lat) x 60 nm of
>"Longitude compression" as you near the poles.  If that is a problem,
>raise it as a separate issue, there are questions here of the source
>data projection and what you want as a finished product.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Pat
>
>
>
>At 11:24 03-05-2007, M Roseveare wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Has anyone come up with a work-around for the Manifold's seemingly dodgy
> >import of Surfer grids (as surfaces)? I say dodgy because Manifold always
> >squashes the grid in the east - west direction. I've tried changing
various
> >combinations of scale factors but none yield the correct result. It used
to
> >be the case that ASCII format grids did this but Surfer 7 binary didn't,
in
> >the latest version of Manifold they all come out wrong...
> >
> >Any advice welcome - I suspect that it's a bug but wondered whether
anyone
> >else has observed the same thing?
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> >Martin Roseveare
> >Senior Geophysicist
> >
> >
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