grdinfo

grdinfo(cmd0::String="", arg1=nothing; kwargs...)

Reads a 2-D grid file and reports metadata and various statistics for the (x,y,z) data in the grid file

Description

Reads a 2-D grid file and reports metadata and various statistics for the data (v) and coordinates (x,y) in a grid (or x,y,z for a 3-D cube). The output information may report the minimum/maximum values for v and the coordinates, where the min/max of v occur, the spatial increments, and the number of nodes in each dimension, and [optionally] the mean, standard deviation, and/or the median, median absolute deviation (MAD) of v, and/or the mode (Least Median of Squares; LMS), LMS scale of v, and number of nodes set to NaN. We also report if the grid is pixel- or gridline-registered and if it is a Cartesian or Geographic data set (based on metadata in the file). We can also report information for 3-D netCDF data cubes, but note that data cubes are not compatible with options tiles, extrema, report_ingeog, and nearest=:b.

Required Arguments

ingrid : – A grid file name or a Grid type

Optional Arguments

• C or oneliner or numeric: – oneliner=true | | numeric=true | oneliner=:n|:t
  Formats the report using tab-separated fields on a single line. The output is:

  • name w e s n {b t} v0 v1 dx dy {dz} nx ny {nz} [x0 y0 {z0} x1 y1 {z1}] [med scale] [mean std rms] [n_nan] registration gtype

  The data in brackets are output only if the corresponding options minmax_pos (with no directive), force_scan=1, and force_scan=2 are used, respectively, while the data in braces only apply if used with 3-D data cubes. Use oneliner=:t to place file name at the end of the output record or oneliner=:n, but preferably numeric=true, to only output numerical columns. The registration is either 0 (gridline) or 1 (pixel), while gtype is either 0 (Cartesian) or 1 (geographic). If the nearest option is used, the output format is instead NF w e s n {b t} v0 v1, where NF is the total number of files read and w e s n {b t} are rounded off (see nearest).

• D or tiles : – tiles=xoff | tiles=(xoff,yoff) | tiles="+i"
  Divide a single grid's domain (or the region domain, if no grid given) into tiles of size dx times dy (set via nearest). You can specify overlap between tiles by appending xoff[/yoff]. You may use the modifier +i to ignore tiles that have no data within each tile subregion. Default output is text region strings. Use oneliner to instead report four columns with xmin xmax ymin ymax per tile, or use -Ct to also have the region string appended as trailing text.

• E or extrema or extreme : – extrema=[:x|:y]["+l|+L|+u|+U"]
  Report the extreme values found on a per column (extrema=:x) or per row (extrema=:y) basis. By default, we look for the global maxima (+u|+U) for each column. Use extrema="+l" or extrema="+L" (or extrema="x+l", etc...) to look for minima instead. Upper case +L means we find the minimum of the positive values only, while upper case +U means we find the maximum of the negative values only [use all values]. We only allow one input grid when extrema is selected.

• F or report_ingeog : – report_ingeog=true
  Report grid domain and x/y-increments in world mapping format [Default is generic]. Does not apply to the oneliner option.

• G or force : – force=true
  Force (possible) download of all tiles of tiled global remote grids in order to report the requested information [refuse to give the information for tiled grids].

• I or nearest : – nearest=dx | nearest=(dx,dy) | nearest=:b|:i|:r
  Report the min/max of the region to the nearest multiple of dx and dy, and output this in the form -Rw/e/s/n (unless oneliner is set). To report the actual grid region, select nearest=:r. For a grid produced by the img supplement (a Cartesian Mercator grid), the exact geographic region is given with nearest=:i (if not found then we return the actual grid region instead). If no argument is given then we report the grid increment in the form -Ixinc/yinc. If nearest=:b is given we write each grid's bounding box polygon instead. Finally, if tiles is in effect then dx and dy are the dimensions of the desired tiles.

• L or force_scan : – force_scan=0|1|2 | force_scan=:p|:a
  - force_scan=0 Report range of v after actually scanning the data, not just reporting what the header says.

  • force_scan=1 Report median and L1 scale of v (L1 scale = 1.4826 * Median Absolute Deviation (MAD)).

  • force_scan=2 Report mean, standard deviation, and root-mean-square (rms) of v.

  • force_scan=:p Report mode (LMS) and LMS scale of v.

  • force_scan=:a All of the above.

  Note: If the grid is geographic then each node represents a physical area that decreases with increasing latitude. We therefore report spherically weighted statistical estimates for such grids.

• M or minmax_pos : – minmax_pos=true | minmax_pos=:c|:f
  Find and report the location of min/max v-values, and count and report the number of nodes set to NaN, if any [Default]. Use minmax_pos=:f to instead force an update of the v-value min/max by reading the matrix, or use :c for conditionally doing so if the header information does not contain a valid v range.

• R or region or limits : – limits=(xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax) | limits=(BB=(xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax),) | limits=(LLUR=(xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax),units="unit") | ...more
  Specify the region of interest. More at limits. For perspective view view, optionally add zmin,zmax. This option may be used to indicate the range used for the 3-D axes. You may ask for a larger w/e/s/n region to have more room between the image and the axes.

• T or minmax : – minmax=true | minmax="[dv][+a[alpha]][+s]"
  Determine min and max data value. If dv is provided then we first round these values off to multiples of dv. To exclude the two tails of the distribution when determining the min and max you can add +a to set the combined alpha value (in percent [2]): We then sort the values, exclude the data in the 0.5 * alpha and 100 - 0.5 * alpha tails, and revise the min and max. Give alpha in the format alphaL/alphaR to select unequal tail areas. To force a symmetrical range about zero, using minus/plus the max absolute value of the two extremes, append +s. We report the result via the text string -Tvmin/vmax or -Tvmin/vmax/dv (if dv was given) as expected by makecpt.

• V or verbose : – verbose=true | verbose=level
  Select verbosity level. More at verbose

• f or colinfo : – colinfo=??
  Specify the data types of input and/or output columns (time or geographical data). More at

• h or header : – header=??
  Specify that input and/or output file(s) have n header records. More at

• o or outcol : – outcol=??
  Select specific data columns for primary output, in arbitrary order. More at

Examples

To obtain all the information about the remote data set in file earthrelief10m:

grdinfo("@earth_relief_10m", force_scan=:a, minmax_pos=true)

Get the grid spacing in earthrelief10m:

dx = grdinfo("@earth_relief_10m", oneliner=:n, out_cols=7)

To learn about the extreme values and coordinates in the 3-D data cube S362ANI_kmps.nc?vs::

grdinfo("S362ANI_kmps.nc?vs", minmax_pos=true)

See Also

grd2cpt, grd2xyz, grdedit