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I have a slope raster and a road raster. The black pixels in the road raster are NoData values and the pink pixels have a value of 1. They don't cover exactly the same area. enter image description here

I want to create a new raster based on the slope raster, except for pixels where there is a road pixel. If there is a road pixel, I want to assign a value of zero to the slope raster.

I am not quite sure how the formula needs to look like. I tried the following, put it didn't give me the expected results:

r.mapcalc "output = ((Slope+(Road*null())))"

Any ideas?

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Use this r.mapcalc expression:

r.mapcalc "output = not(if(Road))*Slope"

because:

  • if(Road)is equal to 1 if Road not zero, 0 otherwise.
  • not(if(Road))is equal to 0 if Road not zero, 1 otherwise.
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  • Though the part of the Slope Raster not covered by the Road Raster gets cut off. Is there a way to keep that part?
    – ustroetz
    Oct 30, 2013 at 22:24
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    You could use r.patch before in order to make the Road raster cover the lower part of the Slope raster.
    – Antonio Falciano
    Oct 30, 2013 at 22:31
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    more simply, g.region rast=slope.
    – gene
    Oct 31, 2013 at 16:17
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    Note that for GRASS 7, the command should be r.mapcalc "output = not(if(Road))*Slope" (both spaces and quotes are needed).
    – wenzeslaus
    Feb 20, 2014 at 23:23
  • @wenzeslaus Thanks for the suggestion, I've updated the answer.
    – Antonio Falciano
    Feb 21, 2014 at 18:43

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