Hello,
I have a map of 4 classes and I would like to know the fastest way
to find the number of patches (raster polygons) within each
class. Thanks for any suggestions.-Eric
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Eric Lambert
ENE Division OR GIS Labratory/Geography
P.O. Box 9005 318 Davenport Hall
Champaign, IL 61826-9005 Urbana, IL 61801E-mail:lambert@gis.uiuc.edu Lab#: (217) 333-5919
WWW: http://ice.gis.uiuc.edu/LAESA/lambert/lambert.html
There is a program from U. Oregon (or Oregon St. U.) called "fragstats"
which does a nice job of this, as well as producing a myraid of other
statistics about rasters. I'm not sure of the way to get it direct,
but I could send it to you, if you will contact me. It has an excellent
manual in Postscript format, also.
One roundabout solution to your problem is to convert the raster map
to vector, then examine the vector attributes file in $LOCATION/dig_att
and count the attributes of each type. A simple shell script or
awk script will do the trick.
Jim Hinthorne
CWU GIS Lab
geol1@cwu.edu
509-963-2826