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Voxel from 3D points (in netCDF format)


riplizard
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I have 3D points (XYZ), with some attributes. The points have fixed distances; Z: 0.5m, X: 50m, Y: 20m. There's a "stack" of 200 points at each location. I want to convert these points into voxels, with a dimension of 0.5m*50m*20m (ZXY) per voxel. The output format must be netCDF.

However, I can't get it to work. I managed to write a file ArcGIS Pro recognizes as voxel layer, but nothing is visible. Another attempt is recognized as multidimensional data (in 2D) only. In both cases I used NumericRasterizer, and the netCDF writer seems to accept only raster data. Can it write voxel data, and if, how? Below are some screenshots for clarification.

 

Points in 2D - the blue line is 20m; red is 50m (perpendicular to the rows); the pale yellow area is what I’m using for my tests (the dataset has about 1.8m points in total)

 

Points in 3D

 

Mockup with point symbology - desired result

 

2D netCDF