sits_cube.stac_cube: Create data cubes from image collections accessible by STAC

In sits: Satellite Image Time Series Analysis for Earth Observation Data Cubes

Create data cubes from image collections accessible by STAC

Description

Creates a data cube based on spatial and temporal restrictions in collections accessible by the STAC protocol

Usage

## S3 method for class 'stac_cube'
sits_cube(
  source,
  collection,
  ...,
  bands = NULL,
  tiles = NULL,
  roi = NULL,
  crs = NULL,
  start_date = NULL,
  end_date = NULL,
  orbit = "descending",
  platform = NULL,
  multicores = 2L,
  progress = TRUE
)

Arguments

source	Data source: one of "AWS", "BDC", "CDSE", "DEAFRICA", "DEAUSTRALIA", "HLS", "PLANETSCOPE", "MPC", "SDC" or "USGS".
collection	Image collection in data source. To find out the supported collections, use sits_list_collections()).
...	Other parameters to be passed for specific types.
bands	Spectral bands and indices to be included in the cube (optional). Use sits_list_collections() to find out the bands available for each collection.
tiles	Tiles from the collection to be included in the cube (see details below).
roi	Region of interest (see below).
crs	The Coordinate Reference System (CRS) of the roi. (see details below).
start_date, end_date	Initial and final dates to include images from the collection in the cube (optional). (Date in YYYY-MM-DD format).
orbit	Orbit name ("ascending", "descending") for SAR cubes.
platform	Optional parameter specifying the platform in case of "LANDSAT" collection. Options: Landsat-5, Landsat-7, Landsat-8, Landsat-9.
multicores	Number of workers for parallel processing (integer, min = 1, max = 2048).
progress	Logical: show a progress bar?

Value

A tibble describing the contents of a data cube.

Note

Data cubes are identified on cloud providers using sits_cube. The result of sits_cube is a description of the location of the requested data in the cloud provider. No download is done.

To create data cube objects from cloud providers, users need to inform:

• source: Name of the cloud provider. One of "AWS", "BDC", "CDSE", "DEAFRICA", "DEAUSTRALIA", "HLS", "PLANETSCOPE", "MPC", "SDC", "TERRASCOPE", or "USGS";

• collection: Name of an image collection available in the cloud provider (e.g, "SENTINEL-1-RTC" in MPC). Use sits_list_collections() to see which collections are supported;

• tiles: A set of tiles defined according to the collection tiling grid (e.g, c("20LMR", "20LMP") in MGRS);

• roi: Region of interest (see below)

The parameters bands, start_date, and end_date are optional for cubes created from cloud providers.

Either tiles or roi must be informed. The tiles should specify a set of valid tiles for the ARD collection. For example, Landsat data has tiles in WRS2 tiling system and Sentinel-2 data uses the MGRS tiling system. The roi parameter is used to select all types of images. This parameter does not crop a region; it only selects images that intersect it.

To define a roi use one of:

• A path to a shapefile with polygons;

• A sfc or sf object from sf package;

• A SpatExtent object from terra package;

• A named vector ("lon_min", "lat_min", "lon_max", "lat_max") in WGS84;

• A named vector ("xmin", "xmax", "ymin", "ymax") with XY coordinates.

Defining a region of interest using SpatExtent or XY values not in WGS84 requires the crs parameter to be specified.

To get more details about each provider and collection available in sits, please read the online sits book (e-sensing.github.io/sitsbook). The chapter Earth Observation data cubes provides a detailed description of all collections you can use with sits (e-sensing.github.io/sitsbook/earth-observation-data-cubes.html).

Examples

if (sits_run_examples()) {
    # --- Creating Sentinel cube from MPC
    s2_cube <- sits_cube(
        source = "MPC",
        collection = "SENTINEL-2-L2A",
        tiles = "20LKP",
        bands = c("B05", "CLOUD"),
        start_date = "2018-07-18",
        end_date = "2018-08-23"
    )

    # --- Creating Landsat cube from MPC
    roi <- c(
        "lon_min" = -50.410, "lon_max" = -50.379,
        "lat_min" = -10.1910, "lat_max" = -10.1573
    )
    mpc_cube <- sits_cube(
        source = "MPC",
        collection = "LANDSAT-C2-L2",
        bands = c("BLUE", "RED", "CLOUD"),
        roi = roi,
        start_date = "2005-01-01",
        end_date = "2006-10-28"
    )

    ## Sentinel-1 SAR from MPC
    roi_sar <- c(
        "lon_min" = -50.410, "lon_max" = -50.379,
        "lat_min" = -10.1910, "lat_max" = -10.1573
    )

    s1_cube_open <- sits_cube(
        source = "MPC",
        collection = "SENTINEL-1-GRD",
        bands = c("VV", "VH"),
        orbit = "descending",
        roi = roi_sar,
        start_date = "2020-06-01",
        end_date = "2020-09-28"
    )
    # --- Access to the Brazil Data Cube
    # create a raster cube file based on the information in the BDC
    cbers_tile <- sits_cube(
        source = "BDC",
        collection = "CBERS-WFI-16D",
        bands = c("NDVI", "EVI"),
        tiles = "007004",
        start_date = "2018-09-01",
        end_date = "2019-08-28"
    )
    # --- Access to Digital Earth Africa
    # create a raster cube file based on the information about the files
    # DEAFRICA does not support definition of tiles
    cube_deafrica <- sits_cube(
        source = "DEAFRICA",
        collection = "SENTINEL-2-L2A",
        bands = c("B04", "B08"),
        roi = c(
            "lat_min" = 17.379,
            "lon_min" = 1.1573,
            "lat_max" = 17.410,
            "lon_max" = 1.1910
        ),
        start_date = "2019-01-01",
        end_date = "2019-10-28"
    )
    # --- Access to Digital Earth Australia
    cube_deaustralia <- sits_cube(
        source = "DEAUSTRALIA",
        collection = "GA_LS8CLS9C_GM_CYEAR_3",
        bands = c("RED", "GREEN", "BLUE"),
        roi = c(
            lon_min = 137.15991,
            lon_max = 138.18467,
            lat_min = -33.85777,
            lat_max = -32.56690
        ),
        start_date = "2018-01-01",
        end_date = "2018-12-31"
    )
    # --- Access to CDSE open data Sentinel 2/2A level 2 collection
    # --- remember to set the appropriate environmental variables
    # It is recommended that `multicores` be used to accelerate the process.
    s2_cube <- sits_cube(
        source = "CDSE",
        collection = "SENTINEL-2-L2A",
        tiles = c("20LKP"),
        bands = c("B04", "B08", "B11"),
        start_date = "2018-07-18",
        end_date = "2019-01-23"
    )

    ## --- Sentinel-1 SAR from CDSE
    # --- remember to set the appropriate environmental variables
    # --- Obtain a AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_ACCESS_SECRET_KEY_ID
    # --- from CDSE
    roi_sar <- c(
        "lon_min" = 33.546, "lon_max" = 34.999,
        "lat_min" = 1.427, "lat_max" = 3.726
    )
    s1_cube_open <- sits_cube(
        source = "CDSE",
        collection = "SENTINEL-1-RTC",
        bands = c("VV", "VH"),
        orbit = "descending",
        roi = roi_sar,
        start_date = "2020-01-01",
        end_date = "2020-06-10"
    )


    # -- Access to World Cover data (2021) via Terrascope
    cube_terrascope <- sits_cube(
        source = "TERRASCOPE",
        collection = "WORLD-COVER-2021",
        roi = c(
            lon_min = -62.7,
            lon_max = -62.5,
            lat_min = -8.83,
            lat_max = -8.70
        )
    )
}

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