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PROGRAM:

NAME

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

KEYWORDS

raster, export

SYNOPSIS

r.out.mat
r.out.mat --help
r.out.mat input=name output=name [--overwrite] [--help] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--ui]

Flags:
--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 [required]
Name for output binary MAT file

DESCRIPTION

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.

NOTES

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:
map_data(find(map_data < -1e9)) = NaN;
Null values in maps containing either floating point or double-precision floating point
data should translate into 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:
[rows cols] = size(map_data)
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

EXAMPLE

In Matlab, plot with either:
imagesc(map_data), axis equal, axis tight, colorbar
or
contourf(map_data, 24), axis ij, axis equal, axis tight, colorbar

TODO

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.

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