tiling: Tiling raster or Spatial-class Grid or Pixels object

Description

Tiling raster or Spatial-class Grid or Pixels (data frame) object to smaller parts with optional overlap.

Usage

tiling(rast,
       tilesize=500,
       overlapping=50,
       aspoints= NA, 
       asfiles=FALSE,
       tilename="tile",
       tiles_folder='tiles',
       parallel.processing=FALSE,
       cpus=6,
       ...)

Value

The list of tiles in SpatRaster-class format or in sf-class, SpatVector or SpatialPointsDataFrame format if aspoints=TRUE.

Arguments

rast: SpatRaster, SpatialPixels* object, SpatialGrid* object or file path to raster object stored on the disk (can be read via rast), for more details see SpatRaster. The resolution of the raster should be the same in x and y direction.
tilesize: integer or vector; tile size in number of cells. Can be a vector of tilesize in x and y direction. Total number of tile cells is tilesize[1] x tilesize[2].
overlapping: integer or vector; overlapping in number of cells. Can be a vector of overlapping in x and y direction.
aspoints: character; Posiible values are sf, terra sp. If specified, tiles are returned in form of points as sf-class, SpatVector or SpatialPointsDataFrame.
asfiles: boolean; if TRUE tiles are stored on local drive as raster objects.
tilename: character; prefix given to file names
tiles_folder: character; destination folder where tiles will be stored. If doesn't exist, the folder will be created.
parallel.processing: boolean; if TRUE parralel processing is performed via snowfall-calculation, sfLapply function.
cpus: integer; number of proccesing units.
...: character; additional arguments for for writing files, see writeRaster.

Author

Milan Kilibarda kili@grf.bg.ac.rs

Examples

Run this code

library(sp)
demo(meuse, echo=FALSE)
rast <- terra::rast(meuse.grid[, "dist"])

# tiling dem in tiles 250x250 with 25 cells overlap
tiles = tiling(rast,
               tilesize=20,
               overlapping=5,
               aspoints=TRUE)
# number of tiles
length(tiles)

# \donttest{
plot(rast)
plot(tiles[[1]] , pch='-' ,col ='green', add=TRUE)
plot(tiles[[2]], pch='.', add=TRUE)
# }

str(tiles[[1]])