Value Error depicting the absence of no data values.

[Dipsi27]

I have used two binary rasters : candidate and benchmark. Both maps have a shape of (2271, 4552). The benchmark raster contains two classes: 0 for no flood and 2 for flood. The candidate raster also contains two classes: 1 for no flood and 2 for flood. When I run the ‘gval.categorical_compare’ command, the following error appears.

ValueError: Both candidate and benchmark maps need to have nodata values set.

What do the ‘no data’ values indicate?

[GregoryPetrochenkov-NOAA]

The reason we require nodata values in a dataset is that they represent where the model domain of a map ends. Since gridded datasets are square, they often contain cells that were not originally in the modeled domain, in this case a flood map. Cells not in the domain but marked as not flooded will affect the overall evaluations either artificially improving or regressing their metrics in an agreement map. While in some cases this cannot be avoided if the original data does not provide nodata information delineating the model domain, we still want a user to explicitly assign nodata values before running a comparison so they are aware it is not included. Please consult this tutorial in order to see how to set a nodata value: https://noaa-owp.github.io/gval/SphinxTutorial.html

[Dipsi27]

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