[GRASS-user] Best format for exporting raster data

[Markus Neteler]

hi Rainer,

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi
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> I am creating a huge amount of raster layers during my simulations, and
> I would like to archive then to enable further analysis. At the moment I
> am leaving them in the grass database and compress the whole mapset into
> a tar.gz file. But this is rather cumbersome, if I want to extract some
> selected layers and analyse them further (my analysis is done in R).

Wht don't you simple use the R-GRASS interface?

> Therefore I would like to export the created layers while the simulation
> is running and to delete them from the grass database.
> My question: what is the best format for this?
> It should :
> - - contain all the information contained in the raster layer in the grass
> mapset
> - - be readable by at least gdal
> - - be preferably compressed (but I can compress them after export)

I would leave it in GRASS and use the R-GRASS interface and/or the
GDAL-GRASS plugin. See the Wiki for details.

Cheers
Markus