[GRASS-user] how to calculate areas

Alex Mandel tech_dev at wildintellect.com
Tue Sep 16 04:47:10 EDT 2008


Maciej Tomaszczyk wrote:
> hello
> I have DEM of some part of mountains chain and i would like to calculate a real area of this (area in 3d not plane area).
> I wonder if Grass can do it.
> best
> maciej
> 
> Maciej Tomaszczyk
> Polish Geological Institute
> Geological Mapping Department
> http://www.pgi.gov.pl
> http://www.opengeology.pl
> 
> 
> 

Just to clarify, you mean surface area as opposed to footprint of the
mountain range. So the sum of all the surfaces of the 3d model?

Alex




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