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NAME
       r.distance   - Locates the closest points between objects in two raster
       maps.

KEYWORDS
       raster, distance

SYNOPSIS
       r.distance
       r.distance --help
       r.distance [-lon] map=name1,name2[,name1,name2,...]  [separator=charac-
       ter]   [sort=string]   [--help]  [--verbose]  [--quiet]  [--ui]

   Flags:
       -l
           Include category labels in the output

       -o
           Report zero distance if rasters are overlapping

       -n
           Report null objects as *

       --help
           Print usage summary

       --verbose
           Verbose module output

       --quiet
           Quiet module output

       --ui
           Force launching GUI dialog

   Parameters:
       map=name1,name2[,name1,name2,...] [required]
           Name of two input raster maps for computing inter-class distances

       separator=character
           Field separator
           Special characters: pipe, comma, space, tab, newline
           Default: :

       sort=string
           Sort output by distance
           Default: sorted by categories
           Options: asc, desc
           asc: Sort by distance in ascending order
           desc: Sort by distance in descending order

DESCRIPTION
       r.distance  locates  the closest points between "objects" in two raster
       maps.  An "object" is defined as all the grid cells that have the  same
       category  number, and closest means having the shortest "straight-line"
       distance.  The cell centers are considered for the distance calculation
       (two adjacent grid cells have the distance between their cell centers).

       The  output is an ascii list, one line per pair of objects, in the fol-
       lowing form:
       cat1:cat2:distance:east1:north1:east2:north2

       cat1
           Category number from map1

       cat2
           Category number from map2

       distance
           The distance in meters between "cat1" and "cat2"

       east1,north1
           The coordinates of the grid cell "cat1" which is closest to "cat2"

       east2,north2
           The coordinates of the grid cell "cat2" which is closest to "cat1"

   Flags
       -l The -l flag outputs the category labels of the  matched  raster  ob-
       jects at the beginning of the line, if they exist.

       -o  The -o flag reports zero distance if the input rasters are overlap-
       ping.

NOTES
       The output format lends itself to filtering.   For  example,  to  "see"
       lines  connecting  each  of  the category pairs in two maps, filter the
       output using awk and then into d.graph:

       r.distance map=map1,map2 | \
         awk -F: ’{print "move",$4,$5,"\ndraw",$6,$7}’ | d.graph -m

       To create a vector map of all the "map1" coordinates, filter the output
       into awk and then into v.in.ascii:

       r.distance map=map1,map2 | \
         awk -F: ’{print $4,$5}’ | v.in.ascii format=point output=name separator=space

SEE ALSO
        r.buffer, r.cost, r.drain, r.grow, r.grow.distance, v.distance

AUTHOR
       Michael Shapiro, U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory

SOURCE CODE
       Available at: r.distance source code (history)

       Accessed: unknown

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