r.clump(1)

NAME
r.clump - Recategorizes data in a raster map by grouping cells that form physically discrete areas into unique categories.

KEYWORDS
raster, statistics, reclass, clumps

SYNOPSIS
r.clump
r.clump --help
r.clump [-dg] input=name [output=name] [title=string] [--overwrite] [--help] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--ui]

  Flags:

-d
    Clump also diagonal cells
    Clumps are also traced along diagonal neighboring cells

-g
    Print only the number of clumps in shell script style

--overwrite
    Allow output files to overwrite existing files

--help
    Print usage summary

--verbose
    Verbose module output

--quiet
    Quiet module output

--ui
    Force launching GUI dialog

  Parameters:

input=name [required]
    Name of input raster map

output=name
    Name for output raster map

title=string
    Title for output raster map

DESCRIPTION
r.clump finds all areas of contiguous cell category values in the input raster map. NULL values in the input are ignored. It assigns a unique category value to each such area ("clump") in the resulting output raster map.

Category distinctions in the input raster map are preserved. This means that if distinct category values are adjacent, they will NOT be clumped together. The user can run r.reclass prior to r.clump to recategorize cells and reassign cell category values.

NOTES
By default, the resulting clumps are connected only by their four direct neighbors (left, right, top, bottom). The -d flag activates also diagonal clump tracing.

r.clump works properly with raster map that contains only "fat" areas (more than a single cell in width). Linear elements (lines that are a single cell wide) may or may not be clumped together depending on the direction of the line - horizontal and vertical lines of cells are considered to be contiguous, but diagonal lines of cells are not considered to be contiguous and are broken up into separate clumps unless the -d flag is used.

A random color table and other support files are generated for the output raster map.

EXAMPLES
Perform clumping on "lakes" map (North Carolina sample dataset) and report area sizes for each lake individually rather by waterbody type:

g.region raster=lakes -p
# report sizes by waterbody type
r.report lakes units=h
# clump per raster polygon
r.clump lakes out=lakes_individual
# report sizes by individual waterbody
r.report lakes_individual units=h

SEE ALSO
r.average, r.buffer, r.distance, r.grow r.mapcalc, r.mfilter, r.neighbors, r.to.vect, r.reclass, r.statistics, r.support

AUTHOR
Michael Shapiro, U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory
Markus Metz (diagonal clump tracing)

Last changed: $Date: 2014-12-19 22:55:37 +0100 (Fri, 19 Dec 2014) $

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