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NAME

r.area - Calculates area of clumped areas and remove areas smaller or greater than given threshold.

KEYWORDS

raster, statistics, area

SYNOPSIS

r.area
r.area --help
r.area [-b] input=name output=name [lesser=integer] [greater=integer] [--overwrite] [--help] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--ui]

Flags:

-b
Binary output
--overwrite
Allow output files to overwrite existing files
--help
Print usage summary
--verbose
Verbose module output
--quiet
Quiet module output
--ui
Force launching GUI dialog

Parameters:

input=name [required]
Name of cell category map, e.g., maps created with r.clump
output=name [required]
Name of output raster with categories representing area size (in cells)
lesser=integer
Remove areas with number of cells lower than given value (0 for none):
Default: 0
greater=integer
Remove areas with number of cells greater than given value (-1 for none):
Default: -1

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DESCRIPTION

Module r.area reclassifies raster areas (created typically with r.clump) to values representing their size (in cells). Additionally, it can be used to remove areas smaller or greater than a threshold.

NOTE

If areas belonging to a certain category are not continuous every area belonging to the same category has the same area value.

SEE ALSO

r.clump, r.mapcalc, r.reclass.area

AUTHOR

Jarek Jasiewicz

SOURCE CODE

Available at: r.area source code (history)

Latest change: Monday Jan 30 19:52:26 2023 in commit: cac8d9d848299297977d1315b7e90cc3f7698730


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