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I have a land use map in the format of TIFF. I imported this file as a table in PostGIS using raster2pgsql. The land use file has 7 different classes.

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How can I select all those pixels that have the value (class) of 5? The table has only two columns (rid, rast).

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  • What do you intend to do with the selection? Have you looked at this doc?: postgis.net/2014/09/26/tip_count_of_pixel_values – Aaron♦ Aug 11 '19 at 22:42
  • I want to select the areas that are lake or river. because in our problem we should avoid those areas. so I need the location of the pixels that have the value of 5. – milad Aug 12 '19 at 2:47
  • I found ST_PixelOfValue() But it returns the number of row and column. I am searching for something that returns me those pixels in a resulting table, a function that clips those pixels with value of 5 and creates a coverage of those ones. – milad Aug 12 '19 at 2:51
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have you tried to polygonize you raster? then you can clip the original raster with the right polygon and you should be good!

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  • Yes, It is a good idea, but I have a very big data set (for a province). I want to find the fastest way to do it. Actually, I want to find the lakes to import them as forbidden areas in the rest of the calculations. – milad Aug 12 '19 at 15:49
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You normally would ST_ReClass() the useless values of your raster to nodata (NULL). Then you can convert the withvalue pixel zones to polygons with ST_DumpAsPolygons() or you could intersect them with other polygons with ST_Clip() or ST_Intersection().

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  • Thanks Pierre your solution is also interesting. I think it should work fast enough for my case. Milad Moradi – milad Aug 12 '19 at 19:12

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