tile: Split a raster into tiles

In mqueinnec/foster: Forest Structure Extrapolation with R

Description

This function is used to split a raster into smaller tiles. The raster is split in a grid pattern with nx columns and ny rows.

Usage

tile(x, nx, ny, filename = "", suffix = NULL, ...)

Arguments

x	Raster* object to split
nx	Number of horizontal cells in the splitting grid
ny	Number of vertical cells in the splitting grid
filename	Character. Output file name including path to directory and eventually extension.Default is "" (output not written to disk).
suffix	Character appended to filename to differentiate tiles (must have length nx x ny). If left NULL, tiles will be numbered by columns and rows
...	Additional parameters passed to writeRaster

Value

A list of Raster* objects

See Also

crop

Examples

# Load raster package
library(raster)

elev_p95 <- stack(system.file("extdata/examples/ALS_metrics_p95.tif",package="foster"))

# Split elev_p95 into a 1 x 2 grid
tile(elev_p95, nx = 1, ny = 2)

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