[GRASS-user] Using i.rectify and data type

[Markus Metz]

2011/7/21 António Rocha <antonio.rocha at deimos.com.pt>:
> Greetings
>
> I have one question regarding i.rectify's data type output: If I have my
> input is a CELL map, will my output will be also CELL? I mean, does it keep
> my data type?

That depends on the resampling method. Only nearest neighbor preserves
the datatype, with all other resampling methods the output will be
DCELL. This is similar to r.proj, only that r.proj uses FCELL for
resampling methods other than nearest neighbor.