How can I find integral of a 3-D mesh field?

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Han
Han on 21 May 2020
Answered: darova on 21 May 2020
For example, there is a mesh field for 2-D data.
I want to find the integration for the mesh graph that consist of the data value. The values are all positive,
How can I find it?
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darova
darova on 21 May 2020
Is your dx and dy steps equal? Can you show the surface from the top?
Han
Han on 21 May 2020
I don't know what you say about dx and dy. the surface from the top, different from the above figure, can be shown as follows.
The points on the surface are grid points.
x and y range are [0 5000], respectively.

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Star Strider
Star Strider on 21 May 2020
See if using trapz on one or both dimensions of your matrix will do what you want.

darova
darova on 21 May 2020
Volume under the surface can be found as
s = 0;
for i = 1:size(A,1)-1
for j = 1:size(A,2)-1
s = s + A(i:i+1,j:j+1); % sum each rectangle points
end
end
s = sum(s(:))/4*dx*dy; % division by 4 - averaging points
See my answer here for more explanations: LINK

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