Perl Module Geo::Raster Copyright (c) 1999- Ari Jolma. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. That is, using either a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or b) the "Artistic License". This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License for more details. You should have received a copy of the Artistic License with this Kit, in the file named "Artistic". If not, get it from http://www.perl.com/language/misc/Artistic.html. You should also have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS array.c and array.h are taken from the Karl Glazebrook's PGPLOT distribution. INSTALLATION To install, unzip and untar the archive. In the directory created type perl Makefile.pl make make test make install Geo::Raster requires the Raster Algebra Library libral. libral is at . Required modules are ExtUtils::Depends, Statistics::Descriptive, gdalconst, and gdal. Documentation is in the module file and will be added onto perllocal.pod as usual. DESCRIPTION Geo::Raster has two purposes/goals: 1) To be a general purpose tool for working with geospatial raster data. This means "raster/map algebra" (overlaying and masking DEMs (Digital Elevation Models), land-use rasters, etc), spatial analyses (kriging, ...), extracting indices from the grids (histograms, ...), etc. 2) To be a general purpose Perl/C tool for doing hydrologic and water resources GIS work. This means watershed delineation, finding stream networks, calculating indices (topographic index, ...), preparing data for hydrologic models, developing spatially distributed hydrologic modeling, etc. The small script rash.pl uses Term::ReadLine and is used to implement a simple but very useful environment for "doing raster algebra GIS with Perl". The rash.pl can have a live connection to gnuplot and Postgres (if invoked with option -a), this is on a basic level now, for example histograms are simple to plot and rgb values for a grid can be retrieved from a database. Gtk2::Ex::Geo is a GUI (with a CLI capability) for Geo::Raster