ArcGIS Reference

Parameters

SOM

The SOM on which to project data.

data to project

The data to project onto the SOM.

projected data

The ouput file to contain the projected data.

distance metric

The distance metric to use in projecting the data.

skip masked data vectors

Skip vectors that have been masked. Masking is done by begining vectors with a “x”, but this is not reccomended since SOM Analyst in several instances does matching based on line number.

read buffer

The number of lines to read at a time.

Code Reference

uiVisual.visual(cin, din, dout, noskip='#', buffer='#', path='\\bin\\SOM_PAK\\')

Creates a BMU file by projecting data onto a SOM.

Arguments :	cin The input codebook file. din The input data file. dout The output BMU file. noskip optional Do not skip data vectors that have all components masked off. buffer optional A read buffer in number of lines size.