[GRASS-user] improved area calculations for raster maps.

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Wednesday 06 September 2006 00:44, Hamish wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just saw this on slashgeo.org,
>
> http://www.geovista.psu.edu/sites/geocomp99/Gc99/076/gc_076.htm
>
>
> from a superficial look at the rotated squares and map of China I'd say
> GRASS's v.to.rast & r.in.poly do a better job, but it would be
> interesting for someone to run some trials and see how we stack up.
>
>
> Hamish

I saw that too, but had difficulting replicating the tests, as I could not 
figure out how to rotate a raster generated with r.plane. recent traffic on 
this list suggests that tests could be done by r.to.vect -> v.transform ... 

cheers,

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Dylan Beaudette
Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group
University of California at Davis
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