[OSGeo-Discuss] Creating Value from Raster Data: Thanks

2011-01-06 Thread Landon Blake
...@burhum.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 9:57 AM To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; Landon Blake Subject: Re: Discuss Digest, Vol 49, Issue 2 Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 15:52:00 -0800 From: "Landon Blake" Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Creating Value from R

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Creating Value from Raster Data

2011-01-04 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il giorno mer, 05/01/2011 alle 14.14 +1100, Noli Sicad ha scritto: > Just to add what Alex mentioned already, here a link for GRASS Image > classification (how to). > > http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Image_classification Also, have a look to Orfeo ToolBox (OTB), who also has a QGIS plugin, unfortun

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Creating Value from Raster Data

2011-01-04 Thread Noli Sicad
Just to add what Alex mentioned already, here a link for GRASS Image classification (how to). http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Image_classification In reference to these works, * Micha Silver: Analyzing acacia tree health in the Arava with GRASS GIS * Perrygeo: Impervious surface deliniation

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Creating Value from Raster Data

2011-01-04 Thread Alex Mandel
One might argue that slippy maps and tile caches have added a lot of value to raster data or at least demand. But more directly on the topic in addition to GDAL. GRASS http://www.perrygeo.net/wordpress/?p=104 See pg 115+ from Open Source GIS A GRASS Approach (Neteler, Mitasova) More generically a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Creating Value from Raster Data

2011-01-04 Thread Noli Sicad
Hi Landon, > - Does anyone know of research or work being done with the > development of open source algorithms and programming libraries to > enable automated feature creation from raster data? Does it means to produce a polygon feature layer from a raster? GDAL has this function - gdal_polygon

[OSGeo-Discuss] Creating Value from Raster Data

2011-01-04 Thread Landon Blake
I'm working on a magazine article for ACSM Bulliten entitled "Creating Value From Raster Data". The target audience will be land surveyors. I was hoping some of the OSGeo guys would be able to help me with a few questions as I do my research for the article: - Are there any open source