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3.2 Geo-Raster Operations 47<br />

(a) Original NRG raster<br />

(b) Output result<br />

Figure 3.8. Calculation of the Total Sum of Cell Values in a Raster<br />

Count<br />

The count operation returns the number of cells that fulfill a boolean condition applied<br />

<strong>to</strong> a raster. For example, consider the following query:<br />

Query 3.2.9. Return the number of cells of raster A of boolean type, containing true<br />

value in the green channel.<br />

Average<br />

count cells(A) = COND +,sdom(A),i (A[i].green = 1)<br />

The average operation returns a scalar value representing the mean of all values contained<br />

in a raster. As an example consider the following query:<br />

Query 3.2.10. Return the average of the cell values in each channel of the NRG image<br />

shown in Fig. 3.9(a).<br />

Let sum cells(A) be a function calculated as shown in Section 3.2.2, and card(sdom(A))<br />

a function returning the cardinality of A. Then, the average of A is calculated as follows:<br />

sum cells(A)<br />

avg cells(A) =<br />

card(sdom(A))<br />

Results are shown in Fig. 3.9.<br />

Maximum<br />

A maximum operation returns the largest cell value contained in a raster of numerical<br />

type. As an example, consider the following query:

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