Questions tagged [area]
Area is a quantity that expresses the extent of a two-dimensional surface or shape, or planar lamina, in the plane.
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Determining the area in Sq Miles of 1 polygon that are contained completely within another polygon
I am looking to determine how much of the area of 1 polygon (Lets say a body of water for instance) falls completely with in another polygon (Call it a state or county for instance) i have a layer ...
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Where can I find the legend?
I have downloaded the following two tiff files from here:
pnv_biome.type_biome00k_c_1km_s0..0cm_2000..2017_v0.1
pnv_biome.type_biome00k_sse_1km_s0..0cm_2000..2017_v0.1
Using r.report in QGIS 3.6 I ...
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Water area trend, Google Earth Engine?
I've written this code for water area trend in Google Earth Engine. However I don't know is the final result true or not? Could anyone check it, please?
Code link: https://code.earthengine.google.com/...
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How to create a function for getting a largest polygon from 2 polygons using case statement in PostgreSQL?
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.largest_polygon1(
geom1 geometry,
geom2 geometry)
RETURNS geometry
LANGUAGE 'plpgsql'
COST 100
VOLATILE
AS $BODY$
begin
Return
Case
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Adding Area column in Polygon layer using PyQGIS? [closed]
I have a WardBoundary.shp file with Polygon Features in it. I have to calculate the area of each Polygon and write into attribute Table.
I can do manually by using '$area` but I need to automate ...
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Raster of land area within 15 km radius
I have two polygon layers, one of Land and one of Reef. I would like to create two rasters, of the Reef layer, who's values are the area of Land within 15 km of each cell, and the area of Reef within ...
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Calculating areas in continuous raster of flood map?
I generated a flood hazard map (raster) of a certain area using ArcGIS 10.5 and classify the result into
low 0.1 ÷ 0.5
medium 0.5 ÷ 1.5
high > 1.5
After that, I overlay a Land Use map (...
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What causes difference between two sources?
I have downloaded ESA global land cover tiff file and opened it with QGIS 3.6. To measure Africa separetly I used polygon file of this continent as a mask. I got the result that total area of Africa ...
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Measuring area using correct CRS and units in QGIS
I have uploaded a shapefile and I am simply trying to calculate some simple areas of provinces (and I know their areas from Wikipedia). My map is from Zimbabwe, and I have saved the project, ...
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Doing large calculations using Export in Google Earth Engine?
I need to calculate builtup and nonbuiltup area for the complete country on India.
The following code gives a "computation timed out error".
var geom = India.geometry();
var area_classifyed = ee....
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Same equal area projection results in different areas when shifting the center of projection
I found that using an equal area projection results in different areas for the same polygons if you shift the center of projection (ie to minimize the distortion of your area of interest when you ...
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QGIS 3.4 $area not equal for same shape
First, I created a regular grid of the size 1km^2 (epsg: 2056). Then I calculated the area of of this grid using different GIS:
Python: arcpy
area_arc
# Python Setup
import arcpy
arcpy.env....
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Select By Attribute - Get Parameter as Text - User input SQL ArcPy
I am trying to create a script that will search for suitable site locations.
I want to let the user input an area size (e.g. >20) to be searched but each time I run the script it comes up as
Error ...
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Understanding difference between area calculation when using zonal statistics tool and identify button?
I am working in ArcGIS Desktop 10.5 and I am a beginner.
I have very basic, non-overlapping polygons over a raster that represents bathymetry data. I need to figure out various statistics about each ...
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Knowing/converting AREA, PERIMETER units in QGIS?
I use Convexhull tool in QGIS and there are result value :
AREA = 0.0017494390 PERIMETER = 0.1725495172
I thought the result was strange. So, I took a rough estimate of the points through the ...
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Calculating area difference between two polygon shapefiles using QGIS
I have two polygon shapefiles which contain about 30 features. These features have different boundaries in both shapefiles so the areas are different too.
I want to calculate that difference in the ...
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Doing change detection of land cover between 2 landsat images in google earth engine?
I am doing land use/ land cover classification of 2000 and 2018 year . I had completed supervised classification now i wanted to do change detection analysis. Please guide me how to do change ...
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Converting Google Maps Lat Long to Square meter area
I want to convert a set of 5 Lat Long (Directly taken from Google Maps) into Sq Meter area.
As 5 points are there I have found the formula on Converting Longitude and Latitude Coordinates to Square ...
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How to smoothen and dissolve the output image and how to calculate the pixel areas of different classes in Google Earth Engine? [closed]
I am doing supervised classification of 5 different classes, I tried the code suggested in GEE tutorial but I can't able to understand the way they did. I am attaching my code here. Could someone ...
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Calculating the area of raster within polygon
I have a raster layer with values of energy demand in each cell. I would like to know the area of the raster within each polygon (see screenshot). Any suggestions on a simple approach for this?
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Calculating damage from a flood at the village level in percentage
I am using ArcGIS for my analysis. I want to calculate the damage from a flood at the village level in terms of percentage area damaged.
I have done the following steps.
My village file is in point ...
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Calculating the area of one layer inside area of another layer QGIS [duplicate]
I am currently looking at some Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in Madagascar, and am trying to work out the percentage reef cover inside an MPA boundary. For example (in the picture below), I have the ...
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Area of one raster cell
I need to identify the area (m2) of each cell in a raster layer. I do know how to find the cell size under metadata (which in my case is [0.00980834,-0.00748333]); but how do I convert this into m2 or ...
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QGIS Identify feature Cartesian area in degrees
In QGIS 3, the identify feature tool automatically calculates area. However, there are two areas: Cartesian and ellipsoid. The first is being calculated in degrees (not wanted) and the second in ...
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Calculating fraction of area characterized with certain values?
I have a rasater data with cell values of the following: missing, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
Now I need to find the fraction defined as (area with value 5)/(Sum of areas with values 1,2,3,4) for a certain ...
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Surface area calculation in Google Earth Engine?
Using this code, I've extracted water extent in a Landsat median image. But how can I compute water area extent?
code link: https://code.earthengine.google.com/8ad84d9ca59b3cb71b62f83119621bdc
var ...
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Calculating area by classified image in Earth Engine
I want to calculate the area for each classified color in earth engine.
Here are my codes.
var image = ee.Image(ee.ImageCollection('LANDSAT/LC8_L1T_TOA')
.filterBounds(roi)
.filterDate('2015-01-...
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Customized Albers Equal Area Conic projections are cosmetic only or do they affect area calculations too?
I will be doing area calculations for 100+ countries using country polygons taken from GADM, a database of global administrative areas. I am using ArcGIS. The GADM data is in WGS84 and is unprojected. ...
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Getting the percentage area of intersecting polygons [closed]
I have the polygons for census tracts within New York City.
I also have the polygons for the parks.
What I would like is % of the census tract area, with an added 400 meter buffer, that is park.
I'm ...
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How to compare centrality of points in different shaped and sized polygons
Suppose I have several polygons of varying shape and size, each containing a single point. I want to compare the centrality of each point, and determine which point is more central to its polygon. I'm ...
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Using ST_Area(geography) with ogrinfo in command line?
I want to to calculate the ellipsoidal/spheroidal area of each grid cell of a vector grid using ogrinfo.
When using ST_Area(geometry) I get the 2D planimetric area (which seems to be constant for a ...
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Turning degrees into square kilometres (km2)?
After running raster layer unique value report I have got pixel number and area in degree.
How can I turn it in square kilometres (km2)?
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Comparing Tract-level data to State-level?
I'm using firearm trace data (available at the state-level) and attempting to compare it to socially disadvantaged areas (census tracts) by the way of regression analysis. Katz and Schnebly (2011) ...
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Search plot by total area of two adjacent plots
I've got some QGIS data where each plot is described with some attributes e.g. Shape_Area which is the field describing the area of plot in m2.
Normally I search for plot using the expression e.g. ...
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ST_Area(geometry) with ogrinfo estimates a stable area per grid cell
I use ST_area(geometry) in order to calculate the area of each grid cell of a vector grid with LCC projection and 6x6km2 resolution. The CRS of the vector is:
+proj=lcc +lat_1=45 +lat_2=22 +lat_0=38.7 ...
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Wrong/Different values from $area and Group Stats
As mentioned in other questions there seems to be a problem with $area when OTF is enabled. In QGIS3 it can not be disabled
My project hast EPSG 31255, some layers area 31255 some have different crs....
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How to convert point data to different sized polygons representing Marine protected areas?
I am trying to map Marine protected areas. I have collected data of where all these areas are. The data is expressed as point data (seen within the top image). Within the attribute tabled I have a ...
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When tabulating area zone field doesn't populate in .dbf table
I am using the tabulate area tool to calculate area of habitat types around banding sites. Each site has a unique name, so I used that when selecting my zone_field in the tool. However, when I run ...
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Why are my polygon features area being calculated as zero?
I am trying to measure the area of polygons within a larger polygon. However some of them, seemingly without reason are being calculated as having zero area. The highlighted regions are calculated as ...
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Calculating area in the attribute field of a QGIS 3.4.3 project with multiple CRS
The area calculations in my project derived from the attribute field show values way below actual area, because the attribute field assumes the project CRS (EPSG:3857). However, this CRS should remain ...
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Intersection and area calculations in geographic vs. projected coordinates
I think one should do intersection calculations when layers are in the same coordinate system, and one should do area calculations in the appropriate projected coordinate system.
The order matters, ...
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QGIS shows incorrect $area in label, but correct in field calculator
I tried showing $area of polygons in QGIS, and it always showed planimetric square degrees instead of metric units. No matter what I set in project general settings, the value remained the same.
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Extract a list areas and indices of multi-part polygons (SpatialPolygonsDataframe) R
I'd like to extract a list of polygons from a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame that include more than one area (so a polygon with a hole for example, or just 2 areas in one polygon entry in general). There ...
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How to calculate the area of several classes of a raster in a polygon of a vector file with QGIS?
I have some trouble with QGIS
I have two layers of information:
The first one a vector that contains 500 objects, with attributes such as number of population, and...
A raster that has three classes:...
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Calculate area of ellipsoidal polygon with QGIS
There is online service of GeographicLib, by Karney, where one can calculate the area of ellipsoidal polygon without need of reprojection.
Can one calculate the area of geometry in QGIS so as ...
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Accurate area calculation for countries worldwide individually [closed]
I have polygons of countries with its administrative divisions, I would calculate the areas of each division in a country accurately.
I got the bounding boxes for each country, then I divided its ...
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Over calculation of area- How do I calculate correct acreage when there are stacked parcels?
I am currently interning for a county in the United States. I am working on the data and mapping needed to fulfill the Open Space Activity of CRS. Stacked parcels are causing me a massive headache.
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What the default unit in QGIS 2.18 $area is calculated and etc?
I'm a beginner in QGIS . We are using 2.18 version.
What are the basic units for area and slope, etc? SI, so means m, m^2, °? Or I can set it by myself? If it's possible to set it, where?
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How do I compute the forest area for different regions?
I am currently struggling to compute the forest area of some regions. I am an absolute beginner with Google Earth Engine.
I tried it 2 different ways, mostly by copying and editing code I found.
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QGIS versions yielding different results on $area calculations?
When grading an exam, I discovered that QGIS 3.2 and 3.4 produce different values on computing $area over polygons.
I experimented using $area and area($geometry) to check the differences between ...
