t.support(1)

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version 8.4.2 · 8 versions
, in fedora 44

💖 NAME 💖

t.support — bestie, this one modifies the metadata of a space time dataset. That's it, that's the whole job, and it does it flawlessly 💅

🎀 KEYWORDS 🎀

temporal, metadata, time

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

t.support
t.support --help
t.support [-mu] input=name  [semantictype=string]   [type=name]
[title=string]   [description=string]   [aggr_type=string]   [--help]
[--verbose]  [--quiet]  [--ui]

🌸 Flags 🌸

  • -m — updates the metadata info and the spatial extent of the registered maps, pulling straight from the GRASS spatial database. Also: it checks for removed maps and deletes them out of the temporal database and every affected space time dataset. Lowkey a little cleanup goblin 🧹
  • -u — updates metadata info plus the temporal and spatial extent from registered maps, based on database entries.
  • --help — prints the usage summary. Your emotional support flag 🫶
  • --verbose — verbose module output (she's chatty, we love her).
  • --quiet — quiet module output (she's mysterious, also iconic).
  • --ui — forces the GUI dialog to launch. Main character energy, graphically.

🦋 Parameters 🦋

  • input=name [required] — the name of the input space time dataset. Not optional, bestie, she needs to know which one.
  • semantictype=string — the semantic type of the space time dataset. Options: min, max, sum, mean Default: mean
  • type=name — the type of the input space time dataset. Options: strds, stvds, str3ds Default: strds
  • title=string — the title of the space time dataset.
  • description=string — the description of the space time dataset.
  • aggr_type=string — the aggregation type of the space time raster or 3D raster dataset.

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

Okay so, t.support is the module that's dedicated to modifying and updating the metadata of a space time dataset. Glow-up service, basically ✨

The title, the description and the semantic type? All modifiable. All yours to change.

The -u flag lets you update the STDS metadata from registered map layers. When is that useful, you ask? When the map layers got modified without using temporal commands. Sneaky little edits. We see them. This fixes them 💀

The -m flag updates the metadata from registered maps too, but it also checks whether registered map layers have been removed from the spatial database. And if they're gone? She deletes those missing map layers from the space time dataset register table and from the temporal database. No ghost data allowed in this house 🚫👻

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Modification of title and description of space time raster dataset A. Watch her work:

t.support type=strds input=tempmean_monthly title="Monthly temperature for North Carolina" \
          description="Dataset with monthly temperature for North Carolina"

Update the metadata of space time raster dataset A and check for removed map layers:

t.support -m type=strds input=tempmean_monthly

Ate. No crumbs. 🔥

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

t.create, t.info

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Sören Gebbert, Thünen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture

🍓 SOURCE CODE 🍓

Available at: t.support source code (history)

Accessed: Saturday Jan 17 05:41:53 2026

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