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NAME
r.describe - Prints terse list of category values found in a raster map layer.
KEYWORDS
raster, metadata
SYNOPSIS
r.describe
r.describe help
r.describe [-1rndiq] map=name [nv=string] [nsteps=integer] [--verbose] [--quiet]
Flags:
- -1
- Print the output one value per line
- -r
- Only print the range of the data
- -n
- Suppress reporting of any NULLs
- -d
- Use the current region
- -i
- Read floating-point map as integer
- -q
- Run quietly
- --verbose
- Verbose module output
- --quiet
- Quiet module output
Parameters:
- map=name
- Name of input raster map
- nv=string
- String representing no data cell value
- Default: *
- nsteps=integer
- Number of quantization steps
- Default: 255
DESCRIPTION
r.describe prints a terse listing of category values found in
a user-specified raster map layer.
r.describe ignores the current geographic region and mask, and
reads the full extent of the input raster map. This functionality is useful if the
user intends to reclassify or rescale the data,
since these functions (r.reclass and
r.rescale)
also ignore the current geographic region
and mask.
The nv parameter sets the string to be used to represent NULL
values in the module output; the default is '*'.
The nsteps parameter sets the number of quantisation steps to divide into
the input raster map.
NOTES
FLAGS
If the user selects the -r flag, a range of category values found in
the raster map layer will be printed. The range is divided into three groups:
negative, positive, and zero. If negative values occur, the minimum and maximum
negative values will be printed. If positive values occur, the minimum and maximum
positive values will be printed. If zero occurs, this will be indicated. The range
report will generally run faster than the full list (the default output).
The -d flag can be used to force r.describe to respect the current region
extents when repoting raster map categories. The default behavior is to read the full
extent of the input raster map.
If the -1 flag is specified, the output appears with one category value/range per line.
The -n flag suppresses the reporting of NULL values.
EXAMPLES
The following examples are from the Spearfish60 sample Location:
# Print the full list of raster map categories:
r.describe landcover.30m
* 11 21-23 31 32 41-43 51 71 81-83 85 91 92
# Print the raster range only:
r.describe -r landcover.30m
11 thru 92
*
r.describe -n landcover.30m
11 21-23 31 32 41-43 51 71 81-83 85 91 92
# Print raster map categories, one category per line:
r.describe -1 geology
*
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SEE ALSO
g.region,
r.mask,
r.reclass,
r.report,
r.rescale,
r.stats,
r.univar
AUTHOR
Michael Shapiro, U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory
Last changed: $Date: 2008-05-16 12:09:06 -0700 (Fri, 16 May 2008) $
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