Evaluating Spatial Data Acquisition
and Interpolation Strategies for River
Bathymetries
Robert Krüger, Pierre Karrasch and Lars Bernard
AbstractThe study implements a workflow to evaluate the effects of different data
sampling methods and interpolation methods, when measuring and modelling a
river bathymetry based on point data. Interpolation and sampling strategies are
evaluated against a reference data set. The evaluation of the results includes criti-
cally discussing characteristics of the input data, the used methods and the trans-
ferability of the results. The results show that the decision for or against a particular
sampling method and for a specific setting of the parameters can certainly have a
great influence on the quality of the interpolation results. Further, some general
guidelines for the acquisition of bathymetries are derived from the study results.
KeywordsSpatial interpolation
⋅Riverbed modelling⋅Spatial sampling
Water frame work directive
⋅Bathymetry
1 Introduction and Motivation
It is almost two decades after the European Water Frame Directive (WFD) entered
into force and required the European Commission and the Member States to
develop a monitoring and reporting system to provide evidence on the progress
made towards sustainable water use and (long term) protection of the available
water resources in Europe (European Union2000). Geoinformation technologies
have always been core to the improvement of the data acquisition processes as well
as to the data processing and integration efforts. Today, the Water Information
System for Europe (WISE
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) provides the European overview on the current state of
the WFD implementation and progress towards the general WFD goal that all
surface waters and groundwaters will be in good ecological status by 2027.
R. Krüger (✉)⋅P. Karrasch⋅L. Bernard
Chair of Geoinformatics, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
e-mail:
[email protected]
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http://water.europa.eu/.
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