slice_time

Extract a single time slice from a data cube

Description

Create a proxy data cube, which extracts a time slice from a data cube defined by label (datetime string) or integer index.

Usage

slice_time(cube, datetime = NULL, it = NULL)

Arguments

Argument Description
cube source data cube
datetime character; datetime string of the time slice
it integer; index of the time slice (zero-based)

Details

Either datetime or it must be non-NULL. If both arguments are provided, the integer index it is ignored.

Note

This function returns a proxy object, i.e., it will not start any computations besides deriving the shape of the result.

Examples

# create image collection from example Landsat data only 
# if not already done in other examples
if (!file.exists(file.path(tempdir(), "L8.db"))) {
  L8_files <- list.files(system.file("L8NY18", package = "gdalcubes"),
                         ".TIF", recursive = TRUE, full.names = TRUE)
  create_image_collection(L8_files, "L8_L1TP", file.path(tempdir(), "L8.db"), quiet = TRUE) 
}
L8.col = image_collection(file.path(tempdir(), "L8.db"))
v = cube_view(extent=list(left=388941.2, right=766552.4, 
              bottom=4345299, top=4744931, t0="2018-01", t1="2018-12"),
              srs="EPSG:32618", nx = 497, ny=526, dt="P1M", aggregation = "median")
L8.cube = raster_cube(L8.col, v, mask=image_mask("BQA", bits=4, values=16))
L8.rgb = select_bands(L8.cube, c("B02", "B03", "B04"))
L8.slice = slice_time(L8.rgb, "2018-03")
L8.slice
A data cube proxy object

Dimensions:
         low       high count       pixel_size chunk_size
t 2018-03-01 2018-03-31     1              P1M          1
y    4345299    4744931   526 759.756653992395        384
x   388941.2   766552.4   497 759.781086519115        384

Bands:
  name offset scale nodata unit
1  B02      0     1    NaN     
2  B03      0     1    NaN     
3  B04      0     1    NaN     
plot(L8.slice, rgb=3:1, zlim=c(5000,12000))