[q] floating-point number?

Hello, everybody!!!
Is there anybody who has ever used 'r.mapcalc' in GRASS5.0beta?

Here is my problem..
As far as I know, Grass 5.0beta can support a floating-point number..
but, when I run 'r.mapcalc' in GRASS5.0beta, the result is always a
kind of integer..
That frustrates me...

Can anybody explain to me what's the problem and how I can represent the
floating-point number?

Thanks in advance...

            Best Regards
             Sungwon Choi

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Sungwon Choi
GIS LAB.
Center for Mineral Resources Research
Korea University, Seoul, Korea
Tel +82-2-953-1676
Email : earthcom@cmrgis.korea.ac.kr
Good Luck!!!
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Hello Sungwon,

On my knowledge, to convert 'integer_raster' to 'fp_raster'
you need enter:

r.mapcalc 'fp_raster'='integer_raster'*1.
                                        ^
                                        this dot is a key in this problem
Good luck.

Janusz Michalak
Warsaw University, Poland
email:jwm@geo.uw.edu.pl

On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Sungwon Choi wrote:

Hello, everybody!!!
Is there anybody who has ever used 'r.mapcalc' in GRASS5.0beta?

Here is my problem..
As far as I know, Grass 5.0beta can support a floating-point number..
but, when I run 'r.mapcalc' in GRASS5.0beta, the result is always a
kind of integer..
That frustrates me...

Can anybody explain to me what's the problem and how I can represent the
floating-point number?

Thanks in advance...

            Best Regards
             Sungwon Choi

--------------------------------------
Sungwon Choi
GIS LAB.
Center for Mineral Resources Research
Korea University, Seoul, Korea
Tel +82-2-953-1676
Email : earthcom@cmrgis.korea.ac.kr
Good Luck!!!
-------------------------------------

Sungwon Choi wrote:

Hello, everybody!!!
Is there anybody who has ever used 'r.mapcalc' in GRASS5.0beta?

Here is my problem..
As far as I know, Grass 5.0beta can support a floating-point number..
but, when I run 'r.mapcalc' in GRASS5.0beta, the result is always a
kind of integer..
That frustrates me...

Can anybody explain to me what's the problem and how I can represent the
floating-point number?

Thanks in advance...

            Best Regards
             Sungwon Choi

--------------------------------------
Sungwon Choi
GIS LAB.
Center for Mineral Resources Research
Korea University, Seoul, Korea
Tel +82-2-953-1676
Email : earthcom@cmrgis.korea.ac.kr
Good Luck!!!
-------------------------------------

My understanding is you cast your integer raster to a float, but that
the resulting raster will truncate to an int, so you may want to
multiply by a factor of ten.

Example:
ndvi = 100 * ((float(band_4) - float(band_2))/(float(band_4) +
float(band_2))

This would calculate the NDVI using bands 2 & 4 of TM. Since the
original ratio is between -1 and 1, multiplying it by 100 makes it -100
to 100. I'm not using the 5.0 version, but in the 4.2.1 version I found
if I didn't multiply by a factor of ten I got an output raster of all
zero's (effectively NULLs). You could addittionally add 127 to the
equation before output to move the zero point to 127 and have an output
raster that is in the 0 - 255 range. Then you don't have to worry about
zero meaning NULL, because you won't have any zero's unless you were
using a mask.
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