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Automatically extract from raster using calculated attributes

DANBOWLES

Hi there

I am trying to extract attributes for the minimum and maximum elevation/slope/aspect/curvature etc. from a previously mapped area of vegetation in order to predict where the same veg community might exist elsewhere.

As shown in the screenshot, I've extracted the area by mask of the existing veg community and have calculated the min and max values automatically in model builder. But I can't get those properties to work with any of the tools that I would normally use to extract by attribute manually as they won't link in model builder.

Please help! I need to do this for many surfaces and many veg communities so doing it all manually isn't really a feasible option.

Thanks

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808707

Hello Dan. Glad to be of help. I think we have similar interests. I'm a geospatial specialist for a conservation charity.

I also came across a new plug-in for QGIS which has a whole range of algoriths for distribution modelling

http://lifemapper.org/?page_id=18

I've havn't had chance to play around with them yet but they might be worth checking out.

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curtvprice

But I can't get those properties to work with any of the tools that I would normally use to extract by attribute manually as they won't link in model builder.

All model variables are a string representation, and the Calculate Value tool can be used to associate that string with a data type for tool parameter validation (so it will "connect" to a tool).

So, if you have a tool that has a SQL expression, the normal way to do this is to connect your model variable to the extract tool (say, Extract Raster By Attributes) and then enter the variable into the SQL expression like this:

VALUE < %dem_min%

or, you can use the Calculate Value tool to create the "where" string:

"VALUE < {0}".format("%dem_min%")

and set its output data type to SQL Expression - so you can link it to your extract tool as a parameter.

DANBOWLES

Thanks! That's a heap of help...

808707

Have you heard of species distribution modelling? Have a look at Maxent. If you have point locations for your vegetation and a number of physical/environmental datasets you can create surface rasters indicating the probability of species occurance at any given point in your datasets

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~schapire/maxent/

DANBOWLES

Thanks for that Mark. I'm an ecologist by training but have worked for a long time as a generalist spatial analyst, and haven't kept up with the ecology over the years. So as you can imagine having moved back into this area in a spatial capacity, I'm pretty excited about this! I'm going to be putting this to the project lead first thing Monday...

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