[GRASS-user] XY trace plots

Hello

I have an ascii file in .csv format containing x/y coordinates and z
values. Z column data represents geophysical data collected along
parallel lines (X and Y coordinates). I wish to display this data in a
format similar to an XY trace plot (see image example), where z data
recorded along individual traverses in the field can be displayed as a
raster image of parallel lines showing both negative and positive
responses along each line. So far I have imported small data sets using
both v.in.ascii and v.in.lines with also use of v.build.polylines but
the results only produce a single flat line. It is most likely I am not
going the right way about this, hence my query. I have searched the mail
archive in advance of this mail and found no relevant reference. Is it
possible to produce such a display with GRASS?

Thank you in advance,

John Nicholls.

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Sample XY Trace Image.png

Not sure it will work but maybe you will need to use some 3d view (nviz)?

Cheers
Daniel

On May 19, 2012 8:33 AM, “John Nicholls” <johnnicholls@fastmail.fm> wrote:

Hello

I have an ascii file in .csv format containing x/y coordinates and z
values. Z column data represents geophysical data collected along
parallel lines (X and Y coordinates). I wish to display this data in a
format similar to an XY trace plot (see image example), where z data
recorded along individual traverses in the field can be displayed as a
raster image of parallel lines showing both negative and positive
responses along each line. So far I have imported small data sets using
both v.in.ascii and v.in.lines with also use of v.build.polylines but
the results only produce a single flat line. It is most likely I am not
going the right way about this, hence my query. I have searched the mail
archive in advance of this mail and found no relevant reference. Is it
possible to produce such a display with GRASS?

Thank you in advance,

John Nicholls.


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John wrote:

I have an ascii file in .csv format containing x/y coordinates and z
values. Z column data represents geophysical data collected along
parallel lines (X and Y coordinates). I wish to display this data in a
format similar to an XY trace plot (see image example), where z data
recorded along individual traverses in the field can be displayed as a
raster image of parallel lines showing both negative and positive
responses along each line. So far I have imported small data sets using
both v.in.ascii and v.in.lines with also use of v.build.polylines but
the results only produce a single flat line. It is most likely I am not
going the right way about this, hence my query. I have searched the mail
archive in advance of this mail and found no relevant reference. Is it
possible to produce such a display with GRASS?

the module has not been written yet, but you might try importing it with
r.in.xyz then interpolating with r.surf.nnbathy (addons) or one of the
other r.surf.* or v.surf.* modules.

maybe R has such a plotting tool already?

Hamish

ps- you might be interested in the v.in.p190 module from GRASS addons,
and the v.in.mbsys_fnv addon module which can read SEG-Y tracks via
MB-System. see http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Geophysics