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Note: This document is for an older version of GRASS GIS that will be discontinued soon. You should upgrade, and read the current manual page.

NAME

r.support - Allows creation and/or modification of raster map layer support files.

KEYWORDS

raster, metadata

SYNOPSIS

r.support
r.support --help
r.support [-bsnd] map=name [title=phrase] [history=phrase] [units=string] [vdatum=string] [source1=phrase] [source2=phrase] [description=phrase] [raster=string] [loadhistory=name] [savehistory=name] [semantic_label=phrase] [--overwrite] [--help] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--ui]

Flags:

-b
Delete the semantic label
-s
Update statistics (histogram, range)
-n
Create/reset the null file
-d
Delete the null file
--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:

map=name [required]
Name of raster map
title=phrase
Title for resultant raster map
history=phrase
Text to append to the next line of the map's metadata file
units=string
Text to use for map data units
vdatum=string
Text to use for map vertical datum
source1=phrase
Text to use for data source, line 1
source2=phrase
Text to use for data source, line 2
description=phrase
Text to use for data description or keyword(s)
raster=string
Raster map from which to copy category table
loadhistory=name
Text file from which to load history
savehistory=name
Text file in which to save history
semantic_label=phrase
Semantic label e.g. S2_8A

Table of contents

DESCRIPTION

r.support allows the user to create and/or edit raster map support information. Editing of raster map color tables, category labels, header, history, semantic label elements and title is supported. Category labels can also be copied from another raster map.

Raster band management

Raster semantic label concept is similar to dimension name in other GIS and remote sensing applications. Most common usage will be assigning a remote sensing platform sensor band ID to the raster, although any identifier is supported. Raster semantic label is suggested to work with imagery classification tools.

EXAMPLES

These examples are based on the North Carolina dataset, more specfically the landuse raster map. Copy the landuse map to the current mapset
g.copy raster=landuse,my_landuse

Update statistics

r.support -s map=my_landuse 

Update Title

r.support map=my_landuse title="Landuse copied"

Append to History Metadata

r.support map=my_landuse history="Copied from PERMANENT mapset"

Update Units Display

r.support map=my_landuse units=meter

Set semantic label

Note: landuse map doesn't confirm to CORINE specification. This is an example only.
r.support map=my_landuse semantic_label=CORINE_LULC

NOTES

If metadata options such as title or history are given the module will run non-interactively. If only the map name is given r.support will run interactively within a terminal shell and the user with be prompted for input.

Freeform metadata information is stored in a "hist" file which may be appended to by using the history option. Currently this is limited to 50 lines of text with a maximum line length of 78 characters. Any input larger than this will be wrapped to the next line. All other metadata strings available as standard options are limited to 79 characters.

SEE ALSO

r.category, r.describe, r.info, r.null, r.region, r.report, r.timestamp

AUTHORS

Micharl Shapiro, CERL: Original author
Brad Douglas: GRASS 6 Port
M. Hamish Bowman: command line enhancements
Markus Neteler: category copy from other map
Maris Nartiss: semantic label management

SOURCE CODE

Available at: r.support source code (history)

Latest change: Wednesday Feb 09 22:41:37 2022 in commit: c37871b51d202b155b64ba04288c4242826936f2


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