r.out.mat - Exports a GRASS raster to a binary MAT-File.

r.out.mat

r.out.mat help

r.out.mat [-v] input=string output=string

Flags:

Parameters:

r.out.mat will export a GRASS raster map to a MAT-File which can be loaded into Matlab or Octave for plotting or further analysis. Attributes such as map title and bounds will also be exported into additional array variables.

Specifically, the following array variables are created:

map_data

map_name

map_title (if it exists)

map_northern_edge

map_southern_edge

map_eastern_edge

map_western_edge

In addition, r.out.mat makes for a nice binary container format for transferring georeferenced maps around, even if you don't use Matlab or Octave.

r.out.mat exports a Version 4 MAT-File. These files should successfully load into more modern versions of Matlab and Octave without any problems.

Everything should be Endian safe, so the resultant file can be simply copied between different system architectures without binary translation.

As there is no IEEE value for NaN for integer maps, GRASS's null value is used to represent it within these maps. You'll have to do something like this to clean them once the map is loaded into Matlab:

Null values in maps containing either floating point or double-precision

floating point data should translate into <tt>NaN values as expected.

r.out.mat must load the entire map into memory before writing,

therefore it might have problems with huge maps.

(a 3000x4000 DCELL map uses about 100mb RAM)

GRASS defines its map bounds at the outer-edge of the bounding cells, not at

the coordinates of their centroids. Thus, the following Matlab commands may

be used to determine the map's resolution information:



x_range = map_eastern_edge - map_western_edge

y_range = map_northern_edge - map_southern_edge

ns_res = y_range/rows

ew_res = x_range/cols

In Matlab, plot with either:

or

Add support for exporting map history, category information, color map, etc.





Option to export as a version 5 MAT-File, with map and support information

stored in a single structured array.

r.in.mat

r.out.bin

r.null

The Octave project

Hamish Bowman



Department of Marine Science

University of Otago

New Zealand

Last changed: $Date: 2004/04/11 06:25:32 $

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