Extracting smaller raster images from big ones

[Mike Hanratty]

In message <Pine.LNX.3.91.961010164344.14668B-100000 at ces.iisc.ernet.in>  writes
:
> Help! I don't know if this is an obvious question, but I have been 
> searching the Grass manual and can't find an answer - I have large raster 
> images and want to extract smaller ones from them for the purpose of 
> supervised classification. How do I do this? I have the coords of the 
> smaller images I want. Defining smaller regions doesn't help, since 
> i.class doesn't take a region name, it simply loads the entire image !
> Please help.... I don't want to export to IDRISI, then extract, and then 
> reimport, as that would take rtoo much time.
> Thanks a lot
> Harini
> 
After defining a smaller region, run r.mapcalc with the command:
newfname = original_raster_fname

This will create a new file containing just the smaller raster image, since 
mapcalc only works on the active region.




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