Questions tagged [spatial-data]
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Interpolate location based on triangular sensor array
There are 3 sensors (A, B, C) on a plane, located in the corners of a (known) equilateral triangle.
I want to calculate the (2D) location of an object (X) inside that triangle.
One sensor returns one ...
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Use of Morton Key to reduce number of grid points
I asked a question on Stack Overflow Performance Issue with VP Trees and Nearest Neighborsand I was not satisfied with the answer and so I thought I would reword my question for this site and post ...
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Algorithms to extract trajectory lines out of 3D point clouds
I am looking for different approaches to extract 3D polylines out of Point Clouds.
We are able to create these point clouds out of different data sources of real world surveys (LIDAR, RADAR, etc...) ...
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Nearest Neighbors in radius via Z-order order curve?
Given a $M\times M\times M$ 3D cube grid $C$, how can I map the 3D grid-coordinates to 1D coordinates such that every cell's nearest neighbors can be represented by a continuous range of corresponding ...
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Ideas on how to search nearby geospatial data fast
I am looking at a very simple problem, but can't quite find the best solution. I need to accept a lat/lon coordinate and based on that coordinate find all the points within roughly ~1km (accuracy is ...
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Algorithm to explore a 3D scalar potential
I have to write an algorithm/code to reconstruct an unknown 3D scalar potential $ V(\mathbf{r})$ up to a specified threshold $E_c$ (assume that the potential is monotonic)
The problem has the ...
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What statistical method should be used for spatial correlation between images?
I am working on analyzing a data set and I was wondering what would be the most statistically valid method of demonstrating that there is a strong spatial correlation between images.
I have a data ...
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Geographic distance between two regions
I am currently trying to calculate the geographic distance between two regions as I want to correlate it with their similarity of another aspect (e.g., similarity in word usage).
Currently, I have ...
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Practical implementation of spatial binning for rectangular range queries
I have a bunch of polygons and a coarse uniform grid. I want to implement two different range queries, for a rectangle aligned with the uniform grid:
Does the rectangle intersect with any polygon at ...
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Repeated nearest neighbor calculation for millions of data points too slow
I have a dataset running into millions of data points in 3D. For the calculation I am doing, I need to calculate neighbor (range search) to each data point in a radius, try to fit a function, ...