GeoStat-Framework/GSTools: Volatile Violet RC2

Release Notes

This release comes with a totally reworked kriging sub-module, a new variogram estimator, Python3-only support and a set of minor bugfixes.

A shout out to @banesullivan for his work on the sphinx gallery and the pivista interface!

You can install GSTools with conda:

conda install -c conda-forge gstools

or with pip:

pip install gstools

The documentation can be found at: https://gstools.readthedocs.io/

• different variogram estimator functions can now be used #51
• the TPLGaussian and TPLExponential now have analytical spectra #67
• added property is_isotropic to CovModel #67
• reworked the whole krige sub-module to provide multiple kriging methods #67
  • Simple
  • Ordinary
  • Universal
  • External Drift Kriging
  • Detrended Kriging
• a new transformation function for discrete fields has been added #70
• reworked tutorial section in the documentation #63
• pyvista interface #29

• Python versions 2.7 and 3.4 are no longer supported #40 #43
• CovModel: in 3D the input of anisotropy is now treated slightly different: #67
  • single given anisotropy value [e] is converted to [1, e] (it was [e, e] before)
  • two given length-scales [l_1, l_2] are converted to [l_1, l_2, l_2] (it was [l_1, l_2, l_1] before)

• a race condition in the structured variogram estimation has been fixed #51
• multiple minor bugfixes