Ubuntu Manpage: r.his - Generates red, green and blue raster map layers combining hue, intensity and

NAME

       r.his   -  Generates  red,  green  and blue raster map layers combining hue, intensity and
       saturation (HIS) values from user-specified input raster map layers.

KEYWORDS

       raster, color transformation

SYNOPSIS

       r.his
       r.his help
       r.his  [-n]  h_map=string   [i_map=string]    [s_map=string]   r_map=string   g_map=string
       b_map=string  [--overwrite]  [--verbose]  [--quiet]

   Flags:
       -n
           Respect NULL values while drawing

       --overwrite
           Allow output files to overwrite existing files

       --verbose
           Verbose module output

       --quiet
           Quiet module output

   Parameters:
       h_map=string
           Name of layer to be used for HUE

       i_map=string
           Name of layer to be used for INTENSITY

       s_map=string
           Name of layer to be used for SATURATION

       r_map=string
           Name of output layer to be used for RED

       g_map=string
           Name of output layer to be used for GREEN

       b_map=string
           Name of output layer to be used for BLUE

DESCRIPTION

his stands for hue, intensity, and saturation. This program produces red, green and blue
raster map layers providing a visually pleasing combination of hue, intensity, and
saturation values from two or three user-specified raster map layers.

The human brain automatically interprets the vast amount of visual information available
according to basic rules. Color, or hue, is used to categorize objects. Shading, or
intensity, is interpreted as three-dimensional texturing. Finally, the degree of haziness,
or saturation, is associated with distance or depth. This program allows data from up to
three raster map layers to be combined into a color image (in the form of separate red,
green and blue raster map layers) which retains the original information in terms of hue,
intensity, and saturation.

While any raster map layer can be used to represent the hue information, map layers with a
few very distinct colors work best. Only raster map layers representing continuously
varying data like elevation, aspect, weights, intensities, or amounts can suitably be used
to provide intensity and saturation information.

For example, a visually pleasing image can be made by using a watershed map for the hue
factor, an aspect map for the intensity factor, and an elevation map for saturation. (The
user may wish to leave out the elevation information for a first try.) Ideally, the
resulting image should resemble the view from an aircraft looking at a terrain on a sunny
day with a bit of haze in the valleys.

The Process
Each map cell is processed individually. First, the working color is set to the color of
the corresponding cell in the map layer chosen to represent HUE. Second, this color is
multiplied by the red intensity of that cell in the INTENSITY map layer. This map layer
should have an appropriate gray-scale color table associated with it. You can ensure this
by using the color manipulation capabilities of d.colors or r.colors. Finally, the color
is made somewhat gray-based on the red intensity of that cell in the SATURATION map layer.
Again, this map layer should have a gray-scale color table associated with it.

NOTES

       The name is misleading. The actual conversion used is
         <u>H.i.s + <u>G.(1-s)
       where
         <u>H   is the R,G,B color from the hue map
         i   is the red value from the intensity map
         s   is the red value from the saturation map
         <u>G   is 50% gray (R = G = B = 0.5)

       Either (but not both) of the intensity or the saturation map layers may be  omitted.  This
       means that it is possible to produce output images that represent combinations of his, hi,
       or hs.  The separate red, green and blue maps can be displayed  on  the  graphics  monitor
       using  d.rgb,  or combined into a composite RGB layer using r.composite.  Users wishing to
       simply display an his composite image without actually generating any  layers  should  use
       the program d.his.

EXAMPLE

       Recreate the following d.his command using r.his:
         r.shaded.relief map=elevation.dem shad=elev.shad_relf
         d.his h=elevation.dem i=elev.shad_relf brighten=50

         r.mapcalc 'elev.shad_relf_bright50 = #elev.shad_relf * 1.5'
         r.colors elev.shad_relf_bright50 color=grey255
         r.his    h_map=elevation.dem   i_map=elev.shad_relf_bright50   r_map=esr.r   g_map=esr.g
       bmap=esr.b
         d.rgb red=esr.r green=esr.g blue=esr.b

AUTHOR

       Glynn Clements (based upon d.his)

       Last changed: $Date: 2008-05-16 10:02:53 -0700 (Fri, 16 May 2008) $

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