[GRASS5] several questions on imagery commands

Hello all,

In the course of writing up a first draft of the chapter on image
processing for the GRASS tutorial, I stumbled upon a few questions:

- Do people still use the i.tape.* commands ?

- Is there any reason to use i.points and i.rectify instead of i.points3
and i.rectify3 ?

- Is there any significant difference between i.composite and r.composite ?

Any help is appreciated.

Moritz

Moritz Lennert wrote:

- Is there any significant difference between i.composite and r.composite ?

i.composite operates upon imagery groups; r.composite works on rasters.

i.composite has to be run interactively, r.composite can be scripted.

i.composite takes the intensity range (black/white values) from the
imagery files, r.composite uses the rasters' colour tables.

Other than that, both perform basically the same purpose.

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Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>

On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 04:39:10PM +0200, Moritz Lennert wrote:

Hello all,

In the course of writing up a first draft of the chapter on image
processing for the GRASS tutorial, I stumbled upon a few questions:

- Do people still use the i.tape.* commands ?

Maybe not. r.in.gdal does a good job on image data.

- Is there any reason to use i.points and i.rectify instead of i.points3
and i.rectify3 ?

Yes, i.points3 and i.rectify3 fail sometimes. These modules were never
finished and wait for a volunteer.
You may want to mention also i.vpoints.

- Is there any significant difference between i.composite and r.composite ?

Already answered by Glynn.

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