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On the construction of shape preserving taper curves.

Lahtinen A. (1993). On the construction of shape preserving taper curves. Silva Fennica vol. 27 no. 1 article id 5496. https://doi.org/10.14214/sf.a15657

Abstract

There exists an algorithm for construction interpolating quadratic splines which preserves the monotony of the data. The taper curves formed with this algorithm, QO-splines, have many good qualities when a sufficient number of measured diameters of a tree is available. In fact, they may even be superior to certain shape preserving taper curves, MR-splines. This algorithm can be modified to preserve also the shape of the data. In the present paper, the quality of taper curves constructed by a new shape preserving from of the algorithm is examined. For this purpose, taper curves are formed for different sets of measurements and their properties are compared with the ones of QO-splines and MR-splines. The results indicate that these new shape-preserving taper curves are in general better than QO-splines and MR-splines even if the differences may be small in many cases. The superiority is the clearer the less measurements are available.

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Keywords
interpolation; monotony; shape preserving; quadratic spline; taper algorithm; taper curves

Published in 1993

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