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I have a polygon shapefile comprised of 4 polygons representing landslides (see image). None of them are overlapped. Number 1 comprises everyone (2, 3 and 4). Number 4 comprises number 3. Finally number 2 and 3 are indivual.
I've calculated the area of every individual polygon but I need to calculate the involved areas as mentioned above. Is there any possibility of adding up the areas creating a new field using the field calculator?
Add a new field to the layer, called A_combined
In the attribute table, select the target feature, enter an expression into the field update bar, and click "update selected."
Substitute the name of your layer into the following expressions:
For feature 1 (feature1 + feature2 + feature3 + feature4), use this expression
attribute( $currentfeature, 'A (km2)' )
+ attribute( get_feature( 'layer name', 'id',2), 'A (km2)' )
+ attribute( get_feature( 'layer name', 'id',3), 'A (km2)' )
+ attribute( get_feature( 'layer name', 'id',4), 'A (km2)' )
For feature 4 (feature3 + feature4), use this expression
attribute( $currentfeature, 'A (km2)' )
+ attribute( get_feature( 'layer name', 'id',3), 'A (km2)' )
For features 2 and 3, use this expression
attribute( $currentfeature, 'A (km2)' )
