# verde.Vector¶

class verde.Vector(components)[source]

Fit an estimator to each component of multi-component vector data.

Provides a convenient way of fitting and gridding vector data using scalar gridders and estimators.

Each data component provided to fit is fitted to a separated estimator. Methods like grid and predict will operate on the multiple components simultaneously.

Warning

Never pass code like this as input to this class: [vd.Trend(1)]*3. This creates 3 references to the same instance of Trend, which means that they will all get the same coefficients after fitting. Use a list comprehension instead: [vd.Trend(1) for i in range(3)].

Parameters

components (tuple or list) – A tuple or list of the estimator/gridder instances used for each component. The estimators will be applied for each data component in the same order that they are given here.

Variables
• components (tuple) – Tuple of the fitted estimators on each component of the data.

• region_ (tuple) – The boundaries ([W, E, S, N]) of the data used to fit the interpolator. Used as the default region for the grid and scatter methods.

verde.Chain

Chain filtering operations to fit on each subsequent output.

Methods Summary

 Vector.filter(coordinates, data[, weights]) Filter the data through the gridder and produce residuals. Vector.fit(coordinates, data[, weights]) Fit the estimators to the given multi-component data. Vector.get_params([deep]) Get parameters for this estimator. Vector.grid([region, shape, spacing, dims, …]) Interpolate the data onto a regular grid. Vector.predict(coordinates) Evaluate each data component on a set of points. Vector.profile(point1, point2, size[, dims, …]) Interpolate data along a profile between two points. Vector.scatter([region, size, random_state, …]) Interpolate values onto a random scatter of points. Vector.score(coordinates, data[, weights]) Score the gridder predictions against the given data. Vector.set_params(**params) Set the parameters of this estimator.

Vector.filter(coordinates, data, weights=None)

Filter the data through the gridder and produce residuals.

Calls fit on the data, evaluates the residuals (data - predicted data), and returns the coordinates, residuals, and weights.

No very useful by itself but this interface makes gridders compatible with other processing operations and is used by verde.Chain to join them together (for example, so you can fit a spline on the residuals of a trend).

Parameters
• coordinates (tuple of arrays) – Arrays with the coordinates of each data point. Should be in the following order: (easting, northing, vertical, …). For the specific definition of coordinate systems and what these names mean, see the class docstring.

• data (array or tuple of arrays) – The data values of each data point. If the data has more than one component, data must be a tuple of arrays (one for each component).

• weights (None or array or tuple of arrays) – If not None, then the weights assigned to each data point. If more than one data component is provided, you must provide a weights array for each data component (if not None).

Returns

coordinates, residuals, weights – The coordinates and weights are same as the input. Residuals are the input data minus the predicted data.

Vector.fit(coordinates, data, weights=None)[source]

Fit the estimators to the given multi-component data.

The data region is captured and used as default for the grid and scatter methods.

All input arrays must have the same shape. If weights are given, there must be a separate array for each component of the data.

Parameters
• coordinates (tuple of arrays) – Arrays with the coordinates of each data point. Should be in the following order: (easting, northing, vertical, …). Only easting and northing will be used, all subsequent coordinates will be ignored.

• data (tuple of array) – The data values of each component at each data point. Must be a tuple.

• weights (None or tuple of array) – If not None, then the weights assigned to each data point of each data component. Typically, this should be 1 over the data uncertainty squared.

Returns

self – Returns this estimator instance for chaining operations.

Vector.get_params(deep=True)

Get parameters for this estimator.

Parameters

deep (bool, default=True) – If True, will return the parameters for this estimator and contained subobjects that are estimators.

Returns

params (mapping of string to any) – Parameter names mapped to their values.

Vector.grid(region=None, shape=None, spacing=None, dims=None, data_names=None, projection=None, **kwargs)

Interpolate the data onto a regular grid.

The grid can be specified by either the number of points in each dimension (the shape) or by the grid node spacing. See verde.grid_coordinates for details. Other arguments for verde.grid_coordinates can be passed as extra keyword arguments (kwargs) to this method.

If the interpolator collected the input data region, then it will be used if region=None. Otherwise, you must specify the grid region.

Use the dims and data_names arguments to set custom names for the dimensions and the data field(s) in the output xarray.Dataset. Default names will be provided if none are given.

Parameters
• region (list = [W, E, S, N]) – The west, east, south, and north boundaries of a given region.

• shape (tuple = (n_north, n_east) or None) – The number of points in the South-North and West-East directions, respectively.

• spacing (tuple = (s_north, s_east) or None) – The grid spacing in the South-North and West-East directions, respectively.

• dims (list or None) – The names of the northing and easting data dimensions, respectively, in the output grid. Default is determined from the dims attribute of the class. Must be defined in the following order: northing dimension, easting dimension. NOTE: This is an exception to the “easting” then “northing” pattern but is required for compatibility with xarray.

• data_names (list of None) – The name(s) of the data variables in the output grid. Defaults to ['scalars'] for scalar data, ['east_component', 'north_component'] for 2D vector data, and ['east_component', 'north_component', 'vertical_component'] for 3D vector data.

• projection (callable or None) – If not None, then should be a callable object projection(easting, northing) -> (proj_easting, proj_northing) that takes in easting and northing coordinate arrays and returns projected northing and easting coordinate arrays. This function will be used to project the generated grid coordinates before passing them into predict. For example, you can use this to generate a geographic grid from a Cartesian gridder.

Returns

grid (xarray.Dataset) – The interpolated grid. Metadata about the interpolator is written to the attrs attribute.

verde.grid_coordinates

Generate the coordinate values for the grid.

Vector.predict(coordinates)[source]

Evaluate each data component on a set of points.

Requires a fitted estimator (see fit).

Parameters

coordinates (tuple of arrays) – Arrays with the coordinates of each data point. Should be in the following order: (easting, northing, vertical, …). Only easting and northing will be used, all subsequent coordinates will be ignored.

Returns

data (tuple of array) – The values for each vector component evaluated on the given points. The order of components will be the same as was provided to fit.

Vector.profile(point1, point2, size, dims=None, data_names=None, projection=None, **kwargs)

Interpolate data along a profile between two points.

Generates the profile along a straight line assuming Cartesian distances. Point coordinates are generated by verde.profile_coordinates. Other arguments for this function can be passed as extra keyword arguments (kwargs) to this method.

Use the dims and data_names arguments to set custom names for the dimensions and the data field(s) in the output pandas.DataFrame. Default names are provided.

Includes the calculated Cartesian distance from point1 for each data point in the profile.

To specify point1 and point2 in a coordinate system that would require projection to Cartesian (geographic longitude and latitude, for example), use the projection argument. With this option, the input points will be projected using the given projection function prior to computations. The generated Cartesian profile coordinates will be projected back to the original coordinate system. Note that the profile points are evenly spaced in projected coordinates, not the original system (e.g., geographic).

Warning

The profile calculation method with a projection has changed in Verde 1.4.0. Previous versions generated coordinates (assuming they were Cartesian) and projected them afterwards. This led to “distances” being incorrectly handled and returned in unprojected coordinates. For example, if projection is from geographic to Mercator, the distances would be “angles” (incorrectly calculated as if they were Cartesian). After 1.4.0, point1 and point2 are projected prior to generating coordinates for the profile, guaranteeing that distances are properly handled in a Cartesian system. With this change, the profile points are now evenly spaced in projected coordinates and the distances are returned in projected coordinates as well.

Parameters
• point1 (tuple) – The easting and northing coordinates, respectively, of the first point.

• point2 (tuple) – The easting and northing coordinates, respectively, of the second point.

• size (int) – The number of points to generate.

• dims (list or None) – The names of the northing and easting data dimensions, respectively, in the output dataframe. Default is determined from the dims attribute of the class. Must be defined in the following order: northing dimension, easting dimension. NOTE: This is an exception to the “easting” then “northing” pattern but is required for compatibility with xarray.

• data_names (list of None) – The name(s) of the data variables in the output dataframe. Defaults to ['scalars'] for scalar data, ['east_component', 'north_component'] for 2D vector data, and ['east_component', 'north_component', 'vertical_component'] for 3D vector data.

• projection (callable or None) – If not None, then should be a callable object projection(easting, northing, inverse=False) -> (proj_easting, proj_northing) that takes in easting and northing coordinate arrays and returns projected northing and easting coordinate arrays. Should also take an optional keyword argument inverse (default to False) that if True will calculate the inverse transform instead. This function will be used to project the profile end points before generating coordinates and passing them into predict. It will also be used to undo the projection of the coordinates before returning the results.

Returns

table (pandas.DataFrame) – The interpolated values along the profile.

Vector.scatter(region=None, size=300, random_state=0, dims=None, data_names=None, projection=None, **kwargs)

Interpolate values onto a random scatter of points.

Point coordinates are generated by verde.scatter_points. Other arguments for this function can be passed as extra keyword arguments (kwargs) to this method.

If the interpolator collected the input data region, then it will be used if region=None. Otherwise, you must specify the grid region.

Use the dims and data_names arguments to set custom names for the dimensions and the data field(s) in the output pandas.DataFrame. Default names are provided.

Parameters
• region (list = [W, E, S, N]) – The west, east, south, and north boundaries of a given region.

• size (int) – The number of points to generate.

• random_state (numpy.random.RandomState or an int seed) – A random number generator used to define the state of the random permutations. Use a fixed seed to make sure computations are reproducible. Use None to choose a seed automatically (resulting in different numbers with each run).

• dims (list or None) – The names of the northing and easting data dimensions, respectively, in the output dataframe. Default is determined from the dims attribute of the class. Must be defined in the following order: northing dimension, easting dimension. NOTE: This is an exception to the “easting” then “northing” pattern but is required for compatibility with xarray.

• data_names (list of None) – The name(s) of the data variables in the output dataframe. Defaults to ['scalars'] for scalar data, ['east_component', 'north_component'] for 2D vector data, and ['east_component', 'north_component', 'vertical_component'] for 3D vector data.

• projection (callable or None) – If not None, then should be a callable object projection(easting, northing) -> (proj_easting, proj_northing) that takes in easting and northing coordinate arrays and returns projected northing and easting coordinate arrays. This function will be used to project the generated scatter coordinates before passing them into predict. For example, you can use this to generate a geographic scatter from a Cartesian gridder.

Returns

table (pandas.DataFrame) – The interpolated values on a random set of points.

Vector.score(coordinates, data, weights=None)

Score the gridder predictions against the given data.

Calculates the R^2 coefficient of determination of between the predicted values and the given data values. A maximum score of 1 means a perfect fit. The score can be negative.

If the data has more than 1 component, the scores of each component will be averaged.

Parameters
• coordinates (tuple of arrays) – Arrays with the coordinates of each data point. Should be in the following order: (easting, northing, vertical, …). For the specific definition of coordinate systems and what these names mean, see the class docstring.

• data (array or tuple of arrays) – The data values of each data point. If the data has more than one component, data must be a tuple of arrays (one for each component).

• weights (None or array or tuple of arrays) – If not None, then the weights assigned to each data point. If more than one data component is provided, you must provide a weights array for each data component (if not None).

Returns

score (float) – The R^2 score

Vector.set_params(**params)

Set the parameters of this estimator.

The method works on simple estimators as well as on nested objects (such as pipelines). The latter have parameters of the form <component>__<parameter> so that it’s possible to update each component of a nested object.

Parameters

**params (dict) – Estimator parameters.

Returns

self (object) – Estimator instance.