i.image.mosaic(1grass)

πŸ’– i.image.mosaic(1grass) β€” bestie, we're makin' a MOSAIC πŸ’–

okay so. put your phone down for like two seconds because this one is lowkey iconic. it's i.image.mosaic from the GRASS User's Manual and it's giving ✨glue it all together✨ energy.

KEYWORDS: imagery, geometry, mosaicking πŸŽ€


✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

i.image.mosaic
i.image.mosaic --help
i.image.mosaic input=name[,name,...] output=name  [nprocs=integer]
[--overwrite]  [--help]  [--verbose]  [--quiet]  [--ui]

🫢 FLAGS 🫢

  • --overwrite β€” lets your output files just bulldoze over existing files. no cap, it overwrites. πŸ™ˆ
  • --help β€” prints the usage summary so you're not out here confused, bestie.
  • --verbose β€” verbose module output. it tells you everything. main character narration. πŸ’…
  • --quiet β€” quiet module output. shhh. no yapping. 🀫
  • --ui β€” forces launching the GUI dialog, for when you want the pretty buttons. πŸŽ€

🌸 PARAMETERS 🌸

  • input=name[,name,...] [required] β€” the name(s) of your input raster map(s). yes you can list several. comma-separate them, go off. 🌈
  • output=name [required] β€” the name for the output raster map. this is the glow-up result. ⭐
  • nprocs=integer β€” number of threads for parallel computing. let her cook on multiple cores πŸ”₯
    • 0: use OpenMP default
    • >0: use nprocs
    • <0: use MAX-nprocs
    • Default: 0

πŸ’œ DESCRIPTION πŸ’œ

so i.image.mosaic mosaics several images or raster maps using the GRASS map calculator, and then extends the colormap to cover the range of all the images. like, it literally takes your little pile of raster besties and makes them into one coordinated group. the colormap gets stretched to fit everybody. periodt. πŸ‘‘


πŸ” SEE ALSO πŸ”

  • r.patch
  • r.mapcalc

πŸ‘‘ AUTHORS πŸ‘‘

Markus Neteler, ITC-Irst, Trento, Italy

Updated to GRASS 5.7 by Michael Barton, Arizona State University


πŸ¦‹ SOURCE CODE πŸ¦‹

Available at: i.image.mosaic source code (history)

Latest change: Thursday Nov 06 17:44:58 2025 in commit: 49643013d49fd2f0415476f39a02f0bc7db7c70b

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and that's the whole vibe, bestie πŸ’– this was GRASS 8.5.0 of the GRASS User's Manual, dated Thursday Nov 06 17:44:58 2025 β€” slay, go mosaic something gorgeous 🌸✨

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