build mosaic (composite) of several spatially disjoint stars objects

st_mosaic(.x, ...)

# S3 method for stars
st_mosaic(
  .x,
  ...,
  dst = tempfile(fileext = file_ext),
  options = c("-vrtnodata", "-9999"),
  file_ext = ".tif"
)

# S3 method for character
st_mosaic(
  .x,
  ...,
  dst = tempfile(fileext = file_ext),
  options = c("-vrtnodata", "-9999"),
  file_ext = ".tif"
)

Arguments

.x	object of class stars, or character vector with input dataset names
...	further input stars objects
dst	character; destination file name
options	character; options to the gdalbuildvrt command
file_ext	character; file extension, determining the format used to write to (".tif" implies GeoTIFF)

Value

the stars method returns a stars object with the composite of the input; the character method returns the file name of the file with the mosaic; see also the GDAL documentation of gdalbuildvrt

Details

the gdal function buildvrt builds a mosaic of input images; these imput images can be multi-band, but not higher-dimensional data cubes or stars objects with multiple attributes

uses gdal_utils to internally call buildvrt; no executables external to R are called.

Examples

x = read_stars(system.file("tif/L7_ETMs.tif", package = "stars"))
x1 = x[,100:200,100:200,]
x2 = x[,150:300,150:300,]
plot(st_mosaic(x1, x2))