NAME¶

v.sample - Samples a raster map at vector point locations.

KEYWORDS¶

vector, raster, resample

SYNOPSIS¶

v.sample v.sample help v.sample [-bcq] input=name column=string output=name raster=name [ z=float] [--overwrite] [--verbose] [-- quiet]

Flags:¶

-b

 

Bilinear interpolation (default is nearest neighbor)

-c

 

Cubic convolution interpolation (default is nearest neighbor)

-q

 

Quiet

--overwrite

 

Allow output files to overwrite existing files

--verbose

 

Verbose module output

--quiet

 

Quiet module output

Parameters:¶

input=name

 

Vector map defining sample points

column=string

 

Vector map attribute column to use for comparison

output=name

 

Vector map to store differences

raster=name

 

Raster map to be sampled

z=float

 

Option scaling factor for values read from raster map. Sampled values will be multiplied by this factor

 

Default: 1.0

DESCRIPTION¶

v.sample samples a GRASS raster map at the point locations in the input file by either cubic convolution interpolation, bilinear interpolation, or nearest neighbor sampling (default). This program may be especially useful when sampling for cross validation of interpolations whose output is a raster map.

NOTES¶

The output points will have the easting and northing of the input points. The input category value is used. The input attribute, raster value and difference is written to output. When NULL values are encountered for a cell, zero value is used instead. In these cases, more acurrate results may be obtained by using the default nearest neighbor comparisons. This program may not work properly with lat-long data when the -bc flags are used. When interpolation is done (i.e., the -bc flags are used), values are assumed to be located at the centroid of grid cells. Therefore, current resolution settings are important.

EXAMPLE¶

Comparison of "elevation.dem" and "elevation.10m" Spearfish maps at random places: #generate random points:
v.random output=random n=100 #add table with one column:
v.db.addtable random col="el10 double" #transfer elevations at random points into table:
v.what.rast rast=elevation.10m vect=random col=el10 #verify:
v.db.select random #generate sampling from other elevation map:
v.sample in=random col=el10 rast=elevation.dem out=elev_sample #verify:
v.db.select elev_sample #univariate statistics of differences between elevation maps:
v.univar elev_sample col=diff type=point

SEE ALSO¶

g.region, v.random, v.what.rast Image Sampling Methods - GRASS Tutorial on s.sample (available as s.sample-tutorial.ps.gz)

AUTHORS¶

James Darrell McCauley when he was at: Agricultural Engineering Purdue University Updated for GRASS 5.0 by Eric G. Miller Updated for GRASS 5.7 by Radim Blazek Last changed: $Date: 2012-07-19 12:10:03 +0200 (Thu, 19 Jul 2012) $ Full index © 2003-2014 GRASS Development Team