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Geostatistical Analyst Prepared by Parikshit Ranade, Dr Ayse Irmak and David R. Maidment Spatial Interpolation Methods Figure 1 : The interpolated value at the unmeasured yellow point is a function of the neighboring red points (From ArcGIS Help Menu). A very basic problem in spatial analysis is interpolating a spatially continuous variable from point samples. Many spatially explicit hydrologic/watershed models require continuous surfaces of temperature. Three commonly used interpolation methods to model spatially distribution from point data are Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW), spline and