Vector field radial basis function approximation

Vector field simplification aims to reduce the complexity of the flow by removing features according to their relevance and importance. Our goal is to preserve only the important critical points in the vector field and thus simplify the vector field for the visualization purposes. We use Radial Basis Functions (RBF) approximation with Lagrange multipliers for vector field approximation. The proposed method was experimentally verified on synthetic and real weather forecast data sets. The results proved the quality of the proposed approximation method compared to other existing approaches. A significant contribution of the proposed method is an analytical form of the vector field which can be used in further processing.