User Guide

This guide explains how APbase turns irregular field data into validated maps. The current implementation is the Python package apbase-python. Start with Installation and Quickstart to install it and create your first map.

For normal map generation, start with apbase.Map or apbase.create_map. They run the full pipeline automatically: filtering, grid generation, variogram fitting, cross-validation, model selection, and interpolation. Use the lower-level components only when you need to inspect or control one stage.

For service, worker, container, and cloud deployment guidance, see Production and cloud deployment.

Note

If you only need a map, the high-level interface is the simplest path. Use SpatialFilter, Grid, IDW, Kriging, or cross_validate directly when you need diagnostics, experiments, or a specific method.

Map and grid generation

For the mathematics behind the automatic IDW-vs-kriging choice, see Methodology. For public signatures, see index.