stac_to_cube: Convert STAC Items to a gdalcubes Image Collection

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Convert STAC Items to a gdalcubes Image Collection

Description

Bridges STAC search results to 'gdalcubes' for raster data cube analysis. Requires the 'gdalcubes' package to be installed.

Usage

stac_to_cube(items, asset_names = NULL, ...)

Arguments

items	An rstac doc_items object as returned by stac_search_raw() or rstac::post_request().
asset_names	Character vector. Asset names to include in the image collection (e.g., c("red", "green", "blue")).
...	Additional arguments passed to gdalcubes::stac_image_collection().

Value

A gdalcubes image collection object.

Examples

raw <- stac_search_raw(
  url = "https://earth-search.aws.element84.com/v1",
  collections = "sentinel-2-l2a",
  bbox = c(-84.5, 38.0, -84.3, 38.2),
  limit = 5
)
cube <- stac_to_cube(raw, asset_names = c("red", "green", "blue"))

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