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Landclass / large areas / gis data?

roger-wilco-66

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I've been pondering on that for quite a time and don't come up with the right answer, maybe someone could give me a hint.

How can you make a custom landclass for a large area, like Southeast Asia, for example? Using SBX for that is very cumbersome.

And, is it possible to feed real GISdata from the Global Land Cover databases or from the Olson land map 2001 into such an undertaking? My intent would be to be able to also change it on a larger scale.


Cheers,
Mark
 
Hi,

If you have reference data you can use that of course. But you'll have to translate to the values that FS uses. In a GIS tool you should be able to script it for larger areas.
 
I've even used a bitmap to paint the data and save it as raw data (8-bit) and make landclass of that. As long as the index values are right resample will make the BGL.
 
Thanks for the replies. Arno, this is exactly the point I am struggling with :)
Dick, I have to look into that, this seems like an answer to one of my questions.

Cheers,
Mark
 
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Hi Mark.

If you have an underlying image that has known extents and is WGS84 projection, you can make an 8-bit indexed layer to paint right over it. Use a palette that makes sense to you. Save as 8-bit RAW with no header.
 
Sorry, I am confused as to how the compiler knows which color is indexed to a specific landclass number. The SDK does not seem to have any informations on that. Maybe I am thinking to complicated :)
 
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The SDK has the list of numbers and landclass types. The value of the pixel should match that table.

 
I have an huge list of .INF file, resample do it one by one.. What is the fastest method to compile its?
 
bredok said:
I have an huge list of .INF file, resample do it one by one.. What is the fastest method to compile its?
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You could make a simple batch file to process the files one by one. Or if you use a few instances of resample you can run them in parallel as well. Then you would just make a few batch files and start them at the same time.
 
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