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t.rast.univar

Calculates univariate statistics from the non-null cells for each registered raster map of a space time raster dataset.

t.rast.univar [-eru] input=name [zones=name] [nprocs=integer] [output=name] [percentile=float [,float,...]] [where=sql_query] [region_relation=string] [separator=character] [--overwrite] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--qq] [--ui]

Example:

t.rast.univar input=name

grass.script.run_command("t.rast.univar", input, zones=None, nprocs=1, output=None, percentile=None, where=None, region_relation=None, separator="pipe", flags=None, overwrite=False, verbose=False, quiet=False, superquiet=False)

Example:

gs.run_command("t.rast.univar", input="name")

Parameters

input=name [required]
    Name of the input space time raster dataset
zones=name
    Raster map used for zoning, must be of type CELL
nprocs=integer
    Number of threads for parallel computing
    Default: 1
output=name
    Name for output file
percentile=float [,float,...]
    Percentile to calculate (requires extended statistics flag)
    Allowed values: 0-100
where=sql_query
    WHERE conditions of SQL statement without 'where' keyword used in the temporal GIS framework
    Example: start_time > '2001-01-01 12:30:00'
region_relation=string
    Process only maps with this spatial relation to the current computational region
    Allowed values: overlaps, contains, is_contained
separator=character
    Field separator character between the output columns
    Special characters: pipe, comma, space, tab, newline
    Default: pipe
-e
    Calculate extended statistics
-r
    Use the raster map regions for univar statistical calculation instead of the current region
-u
    Suppress printing of column names
--overwrite
    Allow output files to overwrite existing files
--help
    Print usage summary
--verbose
    Verbose module output
--quiet
    Quiet module output
--qq
    Very quiet module output
--ui
    Force launching GUI dialog

input : str, required
    Name of the input space time raster dataset
    Used as: input, strds, name
zones : str, optional
    Raster map used for zoning, must be of type CELL
    Used as: input, raster, name
nprocs : int, optional
    Number of threads for parallel computing
    Default: 1
output : str, optional
    Name for output file
    Used as: output, file, name
percentile : float | list[float] | str, optional
    Percentile to calculate (requires extended statistics flag)
    Allowed values: 0-100
where : str, optional
    WHERE conditions of SQL statement without 'where' keyword used in the temporal GIS framework
    Example: start_time > '2001-01-01 12:30:00'
    Used as: sql_query
region_relation : str, optional
    Process only maps with this spatial relation to the current computational region
    Allowed values: overlaps, contains, is_contained
separator : str, optional
    Field separator character between the output columns
    Special characters: pipe, comma, space, tab, newline
    Used as: input, separator, character
    Default: pipe
flags : str, optional
    Allowed values: e, r, u
    e
        Calculate extended statistics
    r
        Use the raster map regions for univar statistical calculation instead of the current region
    u
        Suppress printing of column names
overwrite: bool, optional
    Allow output files to overwrite existing files
    Default: False
verbose: bool, optional
    Verbose module output
    Default: False
quiet: bool, optional
    Quiet module output
    Default: False
superquiet: bool, optional
    Very quiet module output
    Default: False

DESCRIPTION

t.rast.univar calculates univariate statistics from the non-null cells for each registered raster map of a space time raster dataset.

By default it returns the name of the map, the semantic label of the map, the start and end date of the map and the following values: mean, minimum and maximum vale, mean_of_abs, standard deviation, variance, coeff_var, number of null cells, total number of cells.

Using the e flag it can calculate also extended statistics: first quartile, median value, third quartile and percentile 90.

If a zones raster map is provided, statistics are computed for each zone (category) in that input raster map. The zones option does not support space time raster datasets (STRDS) but only a single, static raster map.

Space time raster datasets may contain raster maps with varying spatial extent like for example series of scenes of satellite images. With the region_relation option, computations can be limited to maps of the space time raster dataset that have a given spatial relation to the current computational region. Supported spatial relations are:

  • "overlaps": process only maps that spatially overlap ("intersect") with the current computational region
  • "is_contained": process only maps that are fully within the current computational region
  • "contains": process only maps that contain (fully cover) the current computational region

EXAMPLE

Obtain the univariate statistics for the raster space time dataset "tempmean_monthly" (precision reduced to 2 decimals in this example):

t.rast.univar -e tempmean_monthly
id|start|end|mean|min|max|mean_of_abs|stddev|variance|coeff_var|sum|null_cells|cells|first_quartile|median|third_quartile|percentile_90
2009_01_tempmean@climate_2009_2012|2009-01-01 00:00:00|2009-02-01 00:00:00|3.90|-3.38|7.43|3.95|1.79|3.20|45.91|1977967.31|503233|1010600|2.80|3.92|5.21|6.23
2009_02_tempmean@climate_2009_2012|2009-02-01 00:00:00|2009-03-01 00:00:00|5.91|-1.82|8.01|5.92|1.63|2.65|27.53|2999555.60|503233|1010600|5.44|6.26|7.07|7.48
...
2012_11_tempmean@climate_2009_2012|2012-11-01 00:00:00|2012-12-01 00:00:00|8.03|1.79|10.91|8.03|1.32|1.73|16.41|4072472.77|503233|1010600|7.49|8.13|8.96|9.48
2012_12_tempmean@climate_2009_2012|2012-12-01 00:00:00|2013-01-01 00:00:00|8.71|1.76|11.98|8.71|1.72|2.95|19.74|4418403.77|503233|1010600|7.84|8.95|9.99|10.67

SEE ALSO

t.create, t.info t.create,

AUTHOR

Sören Gebbert, Thünen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture
Stefan Blumentrath (support for zones, parallel processing, and spatial relations)

SOURCE CODE

Available at: t.rast.univar source code (history)
Latest change: Friday Feb 07 19:16:09 2025 in commit a82a39f