... higher the weight, the smoother the output surface. For the tension spline, the higher the weight, the coarser the output surface. More detailed information about the spline interpolation can ... location. However, in kriging, the weights are based not only on the distance between the measured points and the prediction location but also on the overall spatial arrangement of the measured ... ele-vations to control points Compare interpolated and control elevations Compute RMSE of DEM Fig. 1. The workflow for assessing the influence of interpolation technique on the accuracy of...