NAME

       r.buildvrt  - Build a VRT (Virtual Raster) from the list of input raster maps.

KEYWORDS

       raster, mosaic, virtual raster

SYNOPSIS

       r.buildvrt
       r.buildvrt --help
       r.buildvrt   [input=name[,name,...]]   [file=name]  output=name  [title=phrase]   [--overwrite]  [--help]
       [--verbose]  [--quiet]  [--ui]

   Flags:
       --overwrite
           Allow output files to overwrite existing files

       --help
           Print usage summary

       --verbose
           Verbose module output

       --quiet
           Quiet module output

       --ui
           Force launching GUI dialog

   Parameters:
       input=name[,name,...]
           Name of input raster files

       file=name
           Input file with one raster map name per line

       output=name [required]
           Name for output raster map

       title=phrase
           Title for resultant raster map

DESCRIPTION

       r.buildvrt builds a virtual raster (VRT) that is a mosaic of the list of input raster maps.  The  purpose
       of such a VRT is to provide fast access to small subsets of the VRT, also with multiple simultaneous read
       requests.

NOTES

       r.buildvrt  creates  a  list  of  raster  maps  that can be located in different mapsets. The output is a
       read-only link to the original raster maps which is only valid if the original raster maps remain in  the
       originally indicated mapset. A VRT can also be built from raster maps registered with r.external.

       Reading  the  whole VRT is slower than reading the equivalent single raster map. Only reading small parts
       of the VRT provides a performance benefit.

       A GRASS virtual raster can be regarded as a simplified version of  GDAL’s  virtual  raster  format.   The
       GRASS  equivalent  is simpler because issues like nodata, projection, resolution, resampling, masking are
       already handled by native GRASS raster routines.

EXAMPLES

   VRT from a DEM in the North Carolina sample dataset
       In this exercise a low resolution DEM is resampled to a high resolution DEM.  This  is  subsequently  cut
       into small tiles and from that a virtual tile mosaik is created:
       # set the computational region to elevation map
       g.region raster=elev_state_500m -p
       # enforce higher resolution
       g.region res=50 -p
       # resample the 500 meter DEM to 50 meter resolution
       r.resamp.interp input=elev_state_500m output=elev_state_50m method=bilinear
       # create tiles from resulting large 50 m elevation map
       r.tile input=elev_state_50m output=elev_state_50m_tile_ width=1000 height=1000 overlap=0
       # for convenience, dump list of tile names to a file
       g.list type=raster pattern=elev_state_50m_tile_* output=tilelist.csv
       # build a mosaik as VRT from tile list
       r.buildvrt file=tilelist.csv output=elev_state_50m_vrt

SEE ALSO

        r.tile, r.patch, r.external

       The equivalent GDAL utility gdalbuildvrt

AUTHOR

       Markus Metz
       Sponsored by mundialis

SOURCE CODE

       Available at: r.buildvrt source code (history)

       Accessed: Friday Apr 04 01:19:00 2025

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