How create a raster (or DEM) from 3D points?

Hello
I have 3D points from a city contain x,y,z and I want to create a rater from this points. it means I want to use Z as value of my raster. is there any suggestion or code for me to get good result?

Answers (1)

It depends how your data is scattered or gridded. Check the below two ways to plot your data.
%%structured
xi = unique(x) ; yi = unique(y) ;
[X,Y] = meshgrid(xi,yi) ;
Z = reshape(z,size(X)) ;
figure
surf(X,Y,Z)
%%unstructured
dt = delaunayTriangulation(x,y) ;
tri = dt.ConnectivityList ;
figure
trisurf(tri,x,y,z)
Also read about griddata, scatteredinterpolant.

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on 24 Apr 2020

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on 24 Apr 2020

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