FutureMosaic ⌛️🛰️

FutureMosaic is an R package developed to create mosaics of raster data. The package leverages the use of the futures package for parallel processing. This package is useful for creating mosaics of time-series data. By utilizing the GDAL capabilities, FutureMosaic offers a simple yet powerful tool for spatio-temporal data mosaicking.

Note: This is a hobby project

Installation

You can install the development version of futuremosaic like so:

# install.packages("devtools")
# devtools::install_github("M3nin0/futuremosaic")

Using FutureMosaic

To use FutureMosaic, first, prepare a data frame with the following columns:

• id: Scene ID
• collection: Scene collection name
• date: Scene date
• tile: Scene tile
• file: Valid path to raster file

Then, you can call mosaic your data in the following way:

library(futuremosaic)

# Create the mosaics
temporal_mosaic(input_table, output_directory)

Parallel Processing

Control the number of processes executed in parallel using the future package:

library(future)

# Set future plan to multicore, adjust according to your system's capabilities
plan(multicore, workers = 4)

# Now run futuremosaic::temporal_mosaic as before