Questions tagged [sampling]
Measuring data values at specific, discrete locations.
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Exporting dataframe - used reduceRegion to sample an image in Google Earth Engine
I am trying to sample the Global Forest Change dataset using randomly drawn points and the reduceRegion function. The way I construct this is:
var sampledPoints = gfc2014_c.reduceRegions({
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Stratified sampling in Google Earth Engine
I am trying to get stratified random points out of GHSL (Global Human Settlement Layer) which is a classified raster over my study area (partially Europe and Asia continent), see the picture below.
I ...
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Cut hole in raster with shapefile and sample at closest edges
I have a raster in which I'd like to cut a "hole" with a shapefile. I have points close to the boundary, but inside the hole, and I would like to find the closest point on the edge. To give a concrete ...
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Create point clusters based on grid
I am trying to make a systematic cluster sampling pattern for data collection. The sampling consist of the points placed over the landscape in 6 km span (red). From this major point, I need to create ...
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Random sampling in ArcGIS Desktop
I have 14,033 points representing the location of some weather stations across the 36 states in Nigeria. I want to use an ArcGIS Desktop sampling tool to implement a random selection of 200 points ...
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Creating random plots with coordinates within polygon using R [closed]
I am trying to create random plots in a polygon shapefile and then to plot it with index no as 1,2,3,... along with a legend comprising XY coordinates corresponding to each index no.
Code example:
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Extract row & column numbers of a raster at points in QGIS
Is there a tool in QGIS that will extract the row and column numbers of a raster at a set of points? All I have been able to find is the following:
Raster Analysis > Sample raster values
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Extracting surface reflectance values of stratified sampled points in Google Earth Engine
I created 400 stratified sampling points (100 for each of the four classes) using this script: https://code.earthengine.google.com/cbba16d87066b45e61e7d2f7e06bd5c5.
Then I exported the result as an ...
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Export pixel neighborhood in Google Earth Engine [closed]
I have some points and know how to extract the Landsat data at these points and build and export a training dataset to feed an external classifier. But how can I efficiently and automatically build a ...
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Understanding spsample in R?
I have read the documentation for this but still unsure of what the function spsample does.
The documentation is here:
https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/sp/versions/1.3-1/topics/spsample
I ...
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Creating equidistant sampling points in polygon in QGIS 3.6.0?
I have figured out how to add random points inside polygon boundaries. Although this works well, nevertheless I need a few different things to happen for my application.
What I would like to do is ...
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Sampling land cover map using ArcGIS Desktop?
I have a little bit of a sampling problem in ArcGIS Desktop. I have a classified map with 7 Landcover classes, and this classes are as follows with their percentage: Forest=20.9%, agriculture=6.3%, ...
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Point Sampling Tool pyQGIS
I have several raster files (raster_1, raster_2, [...], raster_n) and a point shapefile. The point shapefile (point.shp) was created using "generatepointspixelcentroidsinsidepolygons" so my points are ...
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How to sample points from temporal layerstacking image including null or masked value in Google Earth Engine?
I'd like to sample points from temporal Sentinel-2 images covering a state, about 13 month's mosaic image were stacked into a new image. When I sampled points on the image, I got nothing. I think ...
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How can I sample points from images mosaic in Google Earth Engine
Rodrigo E. Principe did a great job for Mosaicking a Image Collection by Date (day) in Google Earth Engine (https://code.earthengine.google.com/20ad3c83a17ca27b28640fb922819208)
based the code, I ...
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Automating point feature class placement inside polygons using specific parameters?
I am trying to generate a point feature class of possible plot centers for a research project. The plot centers will be inside of defined forest stand polygons which are aggregated in various ways ...
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QGIS spatial sampling tool for existing points within a polygon ensuring even spread
I would like to spatially sample 10 existing points from within a polygon. I have read the answers from "QGIS point sampling tool really slow for polygons?"; "points within a polygon" as well as "How ...
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Google Earth Engine - how to set masked pixels to 'noData'
Lets say I have a region of mangrove forests (from a classified Landsat image) and I mask out all non mangrove pixels. I view this as a layer on the map and it shows the mangrove forests on the map ...
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What's the difference between sample, sampleRegions, and stratifiedSample in Google Earth Engine?
According to the documentation of GEE,
ee.Image.sample() samples the pixels of an image and returns them as a FeatureCollection, in which each feature has 1 property per band in the input image. You ...
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Stratified random point sampling in Python
I have a very basic knowledge in Python and arcpy. I want to create a stratified random sampling point on a continuous polygon. So far, I have dissolved the polygon (according to categories) and ...
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ArcGIS Random Point generator producing same points every iteration
I am generating random points to sample within a stratum.
Data Management Tools > Feature Class > Generate Random Points
This works just fine, except that I noticed the points I generated for ...
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Randomly sample from geopandas dataframe in python
I am reading a shapefile as geopandas dataframe and them using pandas subset method to select a region.
geodata = gpd.read_file(bayshp)
geodata.dtypes
geodata.head(10)
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QGIS 3.2 - Point Sampling Tool error
I am using "Point Sampling Tool" in QGIS 3.2 to obtain values from a raster file to a point layer.
After selecting the layer with the points, the values to get values from, and defining the Output ...
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How much do leaves on/off affect the number of LiDAR ground returns?
We would like to collect a generic purpose topographic LiDAR dataset over a large region in Belgium. Our minimum requirement is to achieve at least 1 point/m² on the ground. Ideally, we would like to ...
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Sample points based on multiple conditions
Can anyone suggest a QGIS/R approach to sample from a polygon n points that satisfy some conditions depending on underlying raster layers values?
E.g. I have a country polygon and I would like to ...
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Applying mask to Kriging shape in ArcGIS Desktop?
I'm trying to apply an mask to a Kriging image for after apply a Density Sampling Network, but unfortunately I'm not getting good results.
I tried to apply on mask on Density Sampling Network and is ...
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Create random sampling point in each grid's cell
I would like to know how to create an X number of random points in each grid cell.
I'm using data from a DEM layer, which contains information about elevation. I used this information to obtain slope ...
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Field sampling design: stratified random or transect?
I am trying to understand the impact of scientific activity in a remote polar environment.
I have five locations in different parts of the region, where historic huts were placed for a couple of ...
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Stratified sampling with a point and polygon layer
I need to perform a stratified sample in the following context.
I have two layers; the first is a point layer (which consists of dwelling centroids.)
The second is a vector layer of polygons with ...
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How to Create Random Points Within a Polygon (Vector Layer)
I have a vector layer that covers a few acres of land, with the buildings cut out (so essentially just the soil in the area). I want to generate points within this defined area. Later, I will use my ...
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Sampling Points and Areas around them
I have some coordinates in QGIS. I want to sample the values corresponding to those coordinates on a layer. I know that I can do that for the exact point using 'Point Sampling Tool'. Is there also a ...
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QGIS Point Sampling Tool: Invalid layer
I am completely new to GIS, and am trying to extract data from PRISM Climate data.
I used the Point Sampling Tool in QGIS, but faced the following error:
The new layer seems to be created, but is ...
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Stratified sampling from point data in ArcGIS Desktop?
I have 8000 points with a zipcode number.
Actually those are tweet points talking about zipcode, so multiple points have same number (e.g. 300 points with zipcode 32,805).
I want to get 800 sample ...
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How to properly address autocorrelation for logistic regression of spatial data
Background for the Model:
https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/268201/how-to-increase-mcfadden-score-and-choose-proper-predictor-for-binary-logistic-r
Data I have:
Forest loss points
Forest ...
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How to import and point sample asc files on QGIS
I am trying to import .asc data into QGIS. These data are produced by the Stage Project in 2000. I want to import it into QGIS to allow me to point sample various climatic variables, especially ...
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Automatic extraction of manually selected points in ArcMap [closed]
I have an Orthomosaic and a DEM (both are in Geotiff formats and have RGB values) of a site, and I want to check their accuracy. For this purpose, I measured the 3D location (with mm accuracy) of some ...
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Risk of generating sampling points from Pseudo-Mercator projection
Is there any risk in using the Pseudo Mercator projection (EPSG:3857) to generate lat/long coordinates for locating sampling plots with a handheld GPS?
My understanding is that since it uses WGS-84 ...
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Generate random points within a polygon with minimum distances in QGIS 2.14
I have a polygon in QGIS 2.14 and want to generate a specified number of coordinate points within that polygon, with a minimum distance apart. The fTools Random Points tool doesn't give this option, ...
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Extracting spectral values from distinct points in ENVI Classic
I have 354 distinct points (as a shapefile) that are very close together i.e. 2-3 points have the same lat but different long or vice versa as the sampling was done in a very small area and the field ...
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Randomly placing polygon within delimited area in ArcGIS for Desktop?
I need to compare the number of animal species in a polygon of my study site against the number of species in a polygon of the same shape and size of my study site but located randomly within a ...
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QGIS point sampling tool error in extracting values
I am trying to use the point sampling tool plugin from QGIS to get some sea ice data (ranging from 0-1) from a GTiff raster layer (ESPG: 3411) for my sites (ESPG:4326) in the Arctic. But the sea ice ...
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Create transect lines of specific length through points
I've got a series of 30 random points in ArcGIS 10.3.1. I'm hoping to generate 200 meter lines of a specific orientation (i.e. north-south) through each point so that I can sample continuous raster ...
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Deciding how many random sampling points needed for specific area?
I have a study area (forest) around 25he. I would like to randomly have sampling points (center of the sampling plots) there. How many points (plots) I need in related to the area of my case study? is ...
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Plugin not available : point sampling tool
I installed the QGIS Standalone Installer Version 2.14 (64bit). I created a map in the program called QGIS Desktop 2.14.3 with GRASS 7.0.4.
I need one tool from Plugin : Point sampling tool. The ...
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Sample Design for Kriging [closed]
I am taking soil samples on an agricultural plot and will be using the results as input to create a semivariogram for kriging in ArcGIS. This plot features raised planting beds in which the test crop ...
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Efficiently iterating through raster calculations with Rasterio or GDAL
I've got a very slow and round-about way to currently do this, but I struggle with the general concept of using windows in raster calculations and how to apply an affine or geotransformation between ...
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Point attribute from underlying raster data TIFFTAG
I have a layer of manually set points in qgis that have the following attributes at the moment :
id, lat, long
Additionally, I have a number of different overlapping raster images (sattelite data) ...
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Sampling raster by line in QGIS
I am quite new to GIS, and was wondering if you might be able to help me out?
I have a raster layer for gradient as well as a line created from GPS tracking points(using the point connector tool). Is ...
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Getting NULL-values when point sampling USGS (SRTM 1 Arc-Second Global) grid (QGIS 2.8.2)
I use the Point Sampling Tool in QGIS to transfer gridvalues (of DEMs) to point features. This goes well with grids from f.i. MapMart (SRTMHARRIS_DEM), but I get only NULL-values when using grids from ...
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Zonal Statistics for multiple rasters
I'm trying to create a timeseries of raster data (one layer per year) by polygon (Administrative regions). Is there any way in QGIS to perform Zonal Statistics for multiple years (without having to ...
