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The estimation of values at unsampled points based on known values of surrounding points.

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Interpolation of Three Data Points

Unless you know that there is a physical reason why temperature differences occur I would use the average value everywhere, and not make an interpolation. …
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How to interpolate daily climate data using ArcGIS for Desktop?

See my answer at: Interpolation of Three Data Points Rather than interpolating you should first wonder if that is a useful thing to do at all: Would your map be better than using the average temperature … Unless you know that there is a physical reason why temperature differences occur I would use the average value everywhere, and not make an interpolation. …
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What type of interpolation to visualize metal detection survey data?

What is the variability of your data? For visualization you might have to aggregate rather than interpolate your date if its variability is high.
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Open source methods for kriging?

Check this free book, it's about doing geostatistics in R, and contains some info on doing it in SAGA and GRASS as well. http://spatial-analyst.net/book/ http://spatial-analyst.net/book/sites/default …
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Fast and robust open source portable script or tool for interpolation - triangulation or sim...

In saga, make sure you read your data as a pointcloud "Import Point Cloud from Text File" and process it as a pointcloud: Point Cloud to Grid. This should be much faster than using shape. Last step ma …
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Are special interpolation techniques required for weather data?

You don't tell us anything about the usage of these maps. Do you just want to produce a map? Will you use them as a model input? This may change your methodology. Which error is acceptable for the u …
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Underwater terrain modeling

You may want to look at mb-system, which is specically made for mapping sea floors (I have no experience, I just know it exists): http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/mb-system_overview.html Anyway, yo …
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Integrating DEM within kriging and other interpolation methods?

It may be better to do some exploratory data analysis first before jumping to an interpolation method. Perhaps there is a map with climate zones already which may perform better than kriging/...? …
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