[GRASS-dev] r.stats output

Paulo van Breugel p.vanbreugel at gmail.com
Wed Sep 24 06:09:39 PDT 2014


On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Moritz Lennert <
mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:

> On 24/09/14 14:08, Paulo van Breugel wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Moritz Lennert
>>     It thus does not make sense to provide coordinates for count or
>>     area: which coordinates would you use if you have cells with the
>>     same category all over your map ?
>>
>>
>> It makes sense if each raster cell is assigned an unique category (which
>> I did). What I was trying was get the area per raster cell (of a latlon
>> raster). But yes, it makes sense that in in general it wouldn't be
>> logical to have coordinates and area at the same time. I was too much
>> focussed on my very specific case (trying an alternative way to get
>> raster cell size of latlon grid).
>>
>
> Ok, now I understand your problem, but honestly, in such a situation I
> believe that it is better to chose a relevant projection, reproject the
> grid and then just use resolution^2 as cell size...
>
> But since you already have gone down the route of calculating cell size in
> r.mapcalc, I guess you really wanted to do it in latlon... ;-)
>
>
Yes, more convenient in this case. I can compute the area directly using
r.mapcalc, so no problem. I was just trying if this would be an easier /
faster method. Thanks for your reply!


> Moritz
>
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