[GRASS-user] Reprojecting and resampling raster map

[stephen sefick]

Thank you all for your helpful comments

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Glynn Clements<glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:
>
> stephen sefick wrote:
>
>> When you reproject a raster map to a new location does it
>> automatically re-sample it to the regions resolution.
>
> The new map is created using the destination region. The original map
> is read at its native resolution, regardless of the source region.
>
>> I have a 10x10
>> meter grid in albers equal area projection.  I have reprojected it
>> into UTM zone 17 res=50.  This is a base flow index map bfi.  Does
>> grass resample the map to 50x50m?
>
> For each 50x50m destination cell, r.proj reverse-projects the cell's
> centre coordinate to the source projection, and samples the input map
> at the projected coordinate. Exactly how it samples the map depends
> upon the method= option (nearest, bilinear, cubic), but the sampling
> or interpolation is based upon the raw source map, without any further
> resampling.
>
> --
> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
>



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