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How does QGIS calculate the area of a polygon?

I am working on a project that requires the calculation of the area of a polygon by two different methods. I need to know what algorithm QGIS uses to calculate the area of a polygon. I know ESRI ...
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How calculate areas between certain contour lines in qgis?

Sorry for asking a question which I found in similar ways already here, but I am trying this for days and just got no result: How do I calculate the area between certain contour lines (e.g. 0-800, ...
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How to calculate area in sq km of an ellipsoid shapefile

In QGIS, I often find myself setting up projects with an ellipsoid coordinate system (e.g. WGS84) so that the resulting maps have lat lon scales, etc. Often in these projects I also need to do some ...
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Raster area (QGIS) problem explained

I would like to know the area that each value in a raster has... The raster I have has values from 2-15 and I would like to know the area that each value is occupaying within my polygon... Thanks! I ...
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Calculating area gets a different result

I've calculated the area of polygons with QGIS by using ctr-i - geometry - $area. I've set it on real. The results seem fine, but I've noticed they differ from the area given when I use the ...
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QGIS 1.8.0 Mac where is measure window or measure area symbol?

Just trying to measure the area of a selected polygon (a few km2) but can't find out where the measure symbol is (mentioned in some posts here) or how to get the measure window shown in the manual. ...
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Assigning an area to a geoprocessed polygon [duplicate]

using QGIS I've geoprocessed a layer using the difference function but the newly created layer still holds the area attributes of the layer I used as the input layer... ie on my output layer, a tiny ...
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How to calculate the area of rasters in QGIS?

I have been working with some rasters and would like to know how to calculate the area occupied by one element of a raster in Qgis.
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The number of digit of decimal point when you calculate area of polygon in QGIS1.8.0

I would like to change the number of digit of decimal point when I calculate area. For example Now: 32.456677 Ideal: 32.46 I try to adjust "output field width" and "Precision" These don't work well. ...
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Auto-calculate field (area or formula)

I'm wondering if anyone has any insight into the potential to auto-calculate the value of a field, either area or distance (ideally) or a formula (based on the values of say 2 other fields, or an ...
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Polygonize vegetation area from Landsat7 RGB using QGis / Bilko?

I'm trying to extract the areas with vegetation as a polygon-shape from a landsat7-image, 30m resolution, RGB, using QGis 1.8 or Bilko or (hopefully in the near future) ArcGIS. The area is in Northern ...
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QGIS define hexagon area around mapped points

I am using QGIS to map a number of radio antennas (for mobile network). Once I have the layer of the sites (done), I would like to assign to each site a coverage area (envelope). I could achieve that ...
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How to use field calculator for area calculations in QGis? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Calculate area between contour lines on a DEM with Qgis 1.8.0-Lisboa Based on a DEM of a whole country I have reclassified altitudinal bands with steps of 100 metres ...
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How to calculate te area between contour lines on a DEM with Qgis 1.8?

Does anyone know how to calculate the area in km² for each altitudinal band (between 100 and 200, 200 and 300...) based on a DEM? I added the contour lines with a distance of 100 metres but could not ...
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How to split an irregular polygon into equal areas?

I am a surveyor and use QGIS for maintaining soil test records on civil projects and am constantly provided with test lot area or number of lots required. These are more often than not irregular in ...
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Transform csv-coordinates into area

I'm working with an inventory of a species in Southern Sweden. I have recorded my findings (together with coordinates, name of the species and year of finding) and created a CSV-file with i have ...
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calculate area of vegetations in a raster file

How do I calculate area of several vegetation types in a raster (.img file type) image. They are color coded. Am using QGIS (1.8.0) and ERDAS 9.2.
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How to get correct area calculation using Google Mercator?

i use QGIS with openlayers-plugin and i´ve loaded google satellite as a layer. what i want to do is making a shape-layer (polygon) with the goal to get the area values of the polygons. i´ve activated ...
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How to measure area correctly?

I have now used my entire evening, but I can't figure out how to make areal calculations (eg. in km2). I have tried the 'field calculator', I have tried the 'measure area' function on the "attributes" ...
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How can I get my Qgis area calculations in metres rather than degrees? My shapefiles are projected using WGS 1984 UTM fuseau 35 Sud

I am using Qgis 1.7.4 to calculate the area of polygons. My shapefiles have been projected using the coordinate system WGS 1984 UTM fuseau 35 Sud, but my area calculations are still displayed in ...
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How to calculate buffer surface that falls within another layer's borders

The image below shows what two selected layers. One contains a series of borders, and the other a series of buffers. I am trying to obtain the buffered surface within each of the borders in the ...
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How to calculate polygon areas and perimeters?

If I load a polygon layer and make a new column, how do I fill that column with the 1) area of each polygon and another column with 2) the length of the perimeter of each polygon?
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Convert area from square meters to degrees globally

I have a global raster file with 3600x1800 pixels. I don't have any information about the projection used. The raster contains one band with a quantity with the unit "per square meter". How can I ...
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How can the scale be projected correctly in Quantum GIS when it is imported from google earth (KML) files?

While importing KML files from google Earth to Quantum GIS, the scale is not being projected properly and the area of a particular selected feature is not being calculated in the attribute table by ...
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Why does intersect not calculate polygon areas?

this is strange: I intersected 2 shape-files and the resulting shape does not contain the Shape_Area and Shape_Length of the intersected polygons. Instead the field Shape_Area contains the ...
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Total newbie. Creating map from aerial photo of golf course in QGIS

I have a aerial photo in tif with a tfw file of the golf course that I work at. I would like to create vector data of different features on the course such as greens fairways tees, etc. to calculate ...