I am preparing what I expect to be a large model. My question is: If a model is the same number of pixels within the projection but model A is more that 50% ‘no data’ pixels whereas model B, with the same number of pixels, is rich in data (very little number of pixels as no data).
Great question. In the current release of ST-Sim (V2.1.0) there would not be faster runtimes for model A. However, we are about to release a new version that handles ‘no data’ cells much more efficiently and in this coming version model A will run significantly faster and use less memory. If you would like a pre-release Beta version please let me know.