Select the database channel to grid. To specify an array element append to the channel array name the element index in square brackets. The 1st element is element 0.

Script Parameter: KRIGRID.CHAN

Select a channel from the drop-down list to act as a mask (or filter) channel. String channels and channels with array size greater than 1 are omitted from the list.

The data values in the channel to grid with corresponding dummy (*) values in the mask channel will not be used in the gridding process.

This field is optional.

Script Parameter: NSI_GRIDDING_CHANNEL

Provide the name of the output grid file. The type of file can be controlled using the browse dialog, which is accessible from the [...] button.

Script Parameter: KRIGRID.GRID

Specify a cell size for the output grid. If the cell size is left blank, the default cell size is used. See the Application Notes below for details on calculating the default cell size.

Script Parameter: KRIGRID.CS

The advanced options dialog allows you to customize the Kriging parameters. The option to generate only a Variogram without gridding the actual data is found in this dialog.

(For reference) the selected channel to grid is displayed in non-editable mode.

(For reference) the output grid file is displayed in non-editable mode

If a file name is provided, the error grid is saved under this name. The error at each grid node is an indication of the degree of confidence. This grid will contain the standard deviation of the Kriging process at each grid node. The resulting output grid will be within 2 standard deviations of the actual value 95% of the time, provided that the selected model (further down) is correct.

Script Parameter: KRIGRID.ERR

If a variogram file is entered, it will be used and the variogram calculation will be skipped. If left blank the variogram is calculated according to the model and parameters provided hereafter.

Script Parameter: KRIGRID.INVAR

If this is the first time through the variogram calculation or if you have changed the variogram model and/or parameters, provide the name of the file to save the variogram in.

Script Parameter: KRIGRID.OUTVAR

X and Y minimum and maximum coordinates. Leaving this entry blank, produces a grid covering the entire dataset. To grid a subset for the data, enter the limits of the bounding rectangle.To default any of these parameters, you must honour their position along the entry by providing the separating commas. Entering a range of ,0,0,0 will cause the grid to cover the maximum limits of the data plus the blanking distance.

Script Parameter: KRIGRID.XY

You can either grid the original data or its logarithmic (base 10) representation. Gridding the log of the data can be a very effective way to reduce distortion due to highly skewed data such as geochemical data.

The options are:

• linear: grid the data as it is.
• log, save as linear: grid the data in logarithmic space and clip all values less than ‘Log minimum’ to the ‘Log minimum’ value, then convert the data back to linear space before saving it to the grid file.
• log-linear, save as linear: grid the data above the positive ‘Log minimum’ and below the negative ‘Log minimum’ in logarithmic space (flip the sign of the data originally in the negative range to take the logarithm then inherit back the sign of the original data; grid the conditioned data). After gridding, all cell values outside the ± ‘Log minimum’ range are converted back to linear space and scaled to maintain continuity at the boundary. Data within the ± ‘Log minimum’ range remains intact and is gridded in a linear sense.
  Finally, the linear representation of the data (in both ranges) is saved to the grid file.
• log, save as log: same as ‘log, save as linear’ except that the grid values are kept in log space: the gridded values are saved to the grid file in their logarithmic representation.
• log-linear, save as log: same as ‘log-linear, save as linear’ except that the grid values are not converted back from log space. The output grid is in logarithmic space with the large amplitude anomalies being somewhat moderated.

Script Parameter: KRIGRID.LOGOPT
  linear: 0 (default)
  log, save as linear: -1
  log-linear, save as linear: -2
  log, save as log: 1
  log-linear, save as log: 2

If gridding in log space (see the Log options above), this parameter specifies the minimum value. The default is 1.

Script Parameter: KRIGRID.LOGMIN

The de-sampling factor is defined as a function of the grid cell size. Before any further calculations, all points within cells of dimension cell_size x desampling_factor are averaged into a single value and placed in the center of the cell.

The default desampling (desampling_factor) is set relative to the contributing points as:

Desampling has two impacts:

• Effectively it acts as a low-pass filter. The larger this parameter the smoother the output grid.

• Speeds up the variogram calculation when the input database is very large.

If the database contains less than 100000 contributing points, the default is set to 1, and the only pre-filtering consists of de-aliasing at the cell level.

The variogram calculation duration is a function of the square of the contributing points. Increasing this factor visibly cuts down the variogram calculation time while little impact is seen on the variogram curve.

Script Parameter: KRIGRID.DSF

All grid cells farther than the blanking distance from a valid point will be set to dummies in the output grid.
The default blanking distance is calculated as:
Preferably this parameter should be set to just greater than the maximum distance through which interpolation is desired.

Script Parameter: KRIGRID.BKD

If the data manifests a trend, you can remove it from the data prior to gridding.

Script Parameter: KRIGRID.RT [Do not remove trend=0 (Default), Remove trend=1]

This selection specifies which of the next 4 parameters are necessary. Options are:

• User defined (requires input variogram)

• Power model using power n (n=0 for linear)

• Spherical model (requires nugget, range and sill)

• Gaussian model (requires nugget, range and sill)

• Exponential model (requires nugget, range and sill)

Script Parameter: KRIGRID.MODEL

This is the power for the power model. The default is 1. In this case, the nugget and slope are fit to the data by default if not specified.

Script Parameter: KRIGRID.POWER

Range/Slope. For spherical, Gaussian and exponential models, the range is the distance at which the variogram model reaches the sill value. Beyond the range, the data is uncorrelated. The range must be entered for the spherical, Gaussian and exponential models. For the power model, this is the rate of climb, or slope for a linear model.

Script Parameter: KRIGRID.RS

The nugget for all models. The nugget is the average error in each data point, and is indicated by the intersection of the variogram model with the h=0 axis. The default is 0.

Script Parameter: KRIGRID.NUG

Sill. This is the level at which the variogram becomes uncorrelated, or goes flat. Beyond the (range, sill) point, the variogram is flat. The sill must be specified for the spherical, power and Gaussian models.

Script Parameter: KRIGRID.SILL

For anisotropic gridding, enter the preferred strike direction angle, measured in degrees clockwise (0°-360°) from the Y axis. This parameter is used in conjunction with the strike weight, below.

Script Parameter: KRIGRID.STRIKE

For anisotropic gridding, enter the weighting to be applied to data in the strike direction. The strike weight is the ratio of the semi-major and semi-minor axes of the weighting ellipse, with its major axis oriented in the strike direction. By default, this value is 1 and the medium is presumed to be isotropic.

Script Parameter: KRIGRID.STRIKEWT (Default: 1)

Create an output variogram only and do not grid the data. The variogram is automatically plotted and displayed in the "variogram.map".