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r.thin will thin only the non-NULL (no data) raster cells of the named input raster map layer within the current geographic region settings. The cell width of the thinned output raster map layer will be equal to the cell resolution of the currently set geographic region. All of the thinned linear features will have the width of a single cell.
r.thin will create a new output raster data file containing the thinned linear features. r.thin assumes that linear features are encoded with positive values on a background of NULL's in the input raster data file, hence it creates a NULL/1 output map.
r.thin may create small spurs or "dangling lines" during the thinning process. These spurs may be removed (after creating a vector map layer) by v.clean (rmdangle tool).
This code implements the thinning algorithm described in "Analysis of Thinning Algorithms Using Mathematical Morphology" by Ben-Kwei Jang and Ronlad T. Chin in Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 12, No. 6, June 1990. The definition Jang and Chin give of the thinning process is "successive removal of outer layers of pixels from an object while retaining any pixels whose removal would alter the connectivity or shorten the legs of the sceleton."
The sceleton is finally thinned when the thinning process converges; i.e., "no further pixels can be removed without altering the connectivity or shortening the sceleton legs" (p. 541). The authors prove that the thinning process described always converges and produces one-pixel thick sceletons. The number of iterations depends on the original thickness of the object. Each iteration peels off the outside pixels from the object. Therefore, if the object is <= n pixels thick, the algorithm should converge in <= iterations.
g.region raster=elevation -p # create flow accumulation map r.watershed elevation=elevation accumulation=accum_50K thresh=50000 # extract streams from flow accumulation map r.mapcalc "streams_from_flow = if(abs(accum_50K) > 1000, 1, null())" # skeletonize map r.thin streams_from_flow out=streams_thin d.mon wx0 d.rast streams_from_flow d.erase d.rast streams_thin
The resulting map cabe optionally vectorized:
r.to.vect streams_thin output=streams_thin type=line # visualize d.rast accum_50K d.vect streams_thin color=red width=2
The code for finding the bounding box as well as input/output code was written by Mike Baba (DBA Systems, 1990) and Jean Ezell (USACERL, 1988).
Available at: r.thin source code (history)
Latest change: Thursday Jan 26 14:10:26 2023 in commit: cdd84c130cea04b204479e2efdc75c742efc4843
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