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I have a raster map in GRASS that looks like this:

Raster map with binary values

The red cells have a value of 1, the yellow cells have a value of 0.

I am trying to use the r.grow command to 'fill in' the gaps in the red lines, but it seems that whatever options I give the command, the output is either exactly the same as the input, or entirely 1, or entirely 0.

The way to run the command that seems most sensible is:

r.grow input=extracted@PERMANENT output=gr8 radius=3.01

which, as far as I can tell, should grow all positive cells by 3 cells. However, it doesn't seem to do anything at all - the output map is exactly the same as the input map. Changing the old and new values doesn't seem to change it either.

Am I doing something wrong here? I have read through the manual page for the r.grow command many times, but can't see what I'm missing.

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    Do you mean that the yellow has a value of zero or that it is null? The manual page says that the non-null cells are expanded only into the null cells (which, by default, apparently are encoded with the value -1, not zero).
    – whuber
    Commented Nov 23, 2012 at 21:19
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    Ah yes, that seems to solve it. I didn't notice that it was talking about NULL pixels, rather than 0 pixels (or maybe I was just used to grow functions working with {0,1} rasters rather than {NULL,1} rasters. If you add this as an answer then I'll accept it. Thanks!
    – robintw
    Commented Nov 25, 2012 at 18:12
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    Furthermore, you can use the r.null command to set zero values to NULL: r.null <rast_map> setnull=0
    – Micha
    Commented Nov 25, 2012 at 19:53
  • (+1 for the question.) I have converted the comment into a formal answer. Glad it helped!
    – whuber
    Commented Feb 24, 2013 at 20:19

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The manual page says that the non-null cells are expanded only into the null cells (which, by default, apparently are encoded with the value -1, not zero).

In a comment, @Micha states you can use r.null to convert the zero values to nulls, as in

 r.null <rast_map> setnull=0

After you make such a change, r.grow should produce the expected output.

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