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NAME
r.cross - Creates a cross product of the category values from multiple raster map layers.
KEYWORDS
raster
SYNOPSIS
r.cross
r.cross help
r.cross [-zq] input=string[,string,...] output=name [--overwrite] [--verbose] [--quiet]
Flags:
- -z
- Non-zero data only
- -q
- Run quietly
- --overwrite
- Allow output files to overwrite existing files
- --verbose
- Verbose module output
- --quiet
- Quiet module output
Parameters:
- input=string[,string,...]
- Names of 2-30 input raster maps
- output=name
- Name for output raster map
DESCRIPTION
r.cross creates an output raster map layer representing
all unique combinations of category values in the raster input layers
(input=name,name,name, ...). At least two, but not more than
ten, input map layers must be specified. The user must also
specify a name to be assigned to the output raster map layer
created by r.cross.
OPTIONS
The program will be run non-interactively if the user specifies
the names of between 2-10 raster map layers be used as input,
and the name of a raster map layer to hold program output.
With the -z flag zero data values are not crossed.
This means that if a zero category value occurs in any input data layer,
the combination is assigned to category zero in the resulting map layer,
even if other data layers contain non-zero data.
In the example given above, use of the -z option
would cause 3 categories to be generated instead of 5.
If the -z flag is not specified, then map layer combinations
in which not all category values are zero will be assigned
a unique category value in the resulting map layer.
Category values in the new output map layer will be the
cross-product of the category values from these existing input map
layers.
EXAMPLE
For example, suppose that, using two raster map layers,
the following combinations occur:
map1 map2
___________
0 1
0 2
1 1
1 2
2 4
r.cross would produce a new raster map layer with 5 categories:
map1 map2 output
____________________
0 1 1
0 2 2
1 1 3
1 2 4
2 4 5
Note: The actual category value assigned to a particular combination
in the result map layer is
dependent on the order in which the combinations occur in the input map
layer data and can be considered essentially random.
The example given here is illustrative only.
SUPPORT FILES
The category file created for the output raster map
layer describes the
combinations of input map layer category values which generated
each category.
In the above example, the category labels would be:
category category
value label
______________________________
1 layer1(0) layer2(1)
2 layer1(0) layer2(2)
3 layer1(1) layer2(1)
4 layer1(1) layer2(2)
5 layer1(2) layer2(4)
A random color table is also generated for the output map layer.
NOTES
When run non-interactively, r.cross will not protect existing
files in the user's mapset. If the user specifies an output
file name that already exists in his mapset, the existing file will
be overwritten by the new r.cross output.
SEE ALSO
r.covar,
r.stats
AUTHOR
Michael Shapiro, U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory
Last changed: $Date: 2008-08-11 20:34:28 -0700 (Mon, 11 Aug 2008) $
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