[GRASS-user] [GRASS-dev] Object-based image classification in GRASS

[Blumentrath, Stefan]

Personally, I do not have any problems with the names of r.stats, r.univar or r.statistics.
However, I see that r.statistics2 or r.statistics3 is not a too elegant solution...

If you really plan to rename all these modules, what about a two-dot-name like r.statistics.* Yet, there are more modules for calculating different statistics (like e.g. r.quantile)... So personally I would just rename r.statistics2 and r.statistics3 and leave the rest as it is...

Naming the modules exactly to what they do will not be too easy I guess as they have different options which make them really versatile tools.
r.univar for example has an option to overlay with a cell map for zoning "zonal statistics" (at least in GRASS 7)... The main difference to r.statistics is in this case that it does not produce map-output...
r.stats (which is one of my favorites btw.) can do much more than just summarizing maps, the main characteristic of r.stats is (as I see it) that it tabulates one or more rasters...

Just my 2c.

Cheers
Stefan




From: grass-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:grass-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Michael Barton
Sent: 13. februar 2014 00:22
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Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] [GRASS-dev] Object-based image classification in GRASS

The names aren't too far off, but I admit that they are not completely obvious.

To think about potential replacement names it is good to think what they do.

r.univar calculates aggregate statistics for values across all cells of a map
r.stats (which to me has the most confusing name) will provide cell counts or areas for each value for all cells in a map
r.statistics calculates aggregate statistics of values in a map that are overlain by clusters of cells in another map

Some ideas

r.univar -> r.mapstats
r.statistics -> r.coverstats
r.stats -> r.mapsummary



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On Feb 12, 2014, at 1:00 PM, <grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org>> <grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org>> wrote:


From: Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com<mailto:wenzeslaus at gmail.com>>
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] [GRASS-dev] Object-based image classification in GRASS
Date: February 12, 2014 at 9:28:29 AM MST
To: Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com<mailto:landa.martin at gmail.com>>
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On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com<mailto:landa.martin at gmail.com>>wrote:
Hi,

2014-02-12 13:41 GMT+01:00 Nikos Alexandris <nik at nikosalexandris.net<mailto:nik at nikosalexandris.net>>:

[...]

> think of simply using "r.statistics2"  and  providing an input  "cover=" map
btw, it remembers me that we haven't yet decided about renaming
`r.statistics2` and `r.statistics3` to any reasonable name...
And they confuses with r.stats and r.univar. And r.univar is the most basic one from these, I would say, and has the most cryptic name.

Is the merging (some of) them together still an option?

Vaclav

Martin

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