User guide

Creating Grids Using
Other Methods
Vertical Mapper comes with a number of data preparation and grid creation
methods that enable you to build grid files from data files and tables of regions,
polylines, or points.
This section discusses how to:
• import grids from other formats
• create point density grids (square area and kernel smoothing)
• convert a region to a grid
• buffer a grid
• use the Poly-to-Point tool to prepare data for creating a grid
In this chapter:
 Creating Grids Using Other Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
 Importing Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72
 Creating Point Density Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74
 Region-to-Grid Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78
 Grid Buffering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79
 Preparing Data using Poly-to-Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82
 Import Raster Data as Vertical Mapper Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83
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