R raster package split image into multiples

Question

I have an image as below. It is 2579*2388 pixels. Lets assume that it\'s bottom left corner is at 0,0. From that image I want to create multiple images as follows and save them

Answer 1

Here's one way to do it, using GDAL via gdalUtils, and parallelizing if desired.

library(gdalUtils)

# Get the dimensions of the jpg    
dims <- as.numeric(
  strsplit(gsub('Size is|\\s+', '', grep('Size is', gdalinfo('R1fqE.jpg'), value=TRUE)), 
           ',')[[1]]
)

# Set the window increment, width and height
incr <- 10
win_width <- 100
win_height <- 100

# Create a data.frame containing coordinates of the lower-left
#  corners of the windows, and the corresponding output filenames.
xy <- setNames(expand.grid(seq(0, dims[1], incr), seq(dims[2], 0, -incr)), 
               c('llx', 'lly'))
xy$nm <- paste0(xy$llx, '-', dims[2] - xy$lly, '.png')

# Create a function to split the raster using gdalUtils::gdal_translate
split_rast <- function(infile, outfile, llx, lly, win_width, win_height) {
  library(gdalUtils)
  gdal_translate(infile, outfile, 
                 srcwin=c(llx, lly - win_height, win_width, win_height))
}

Example applying the function to a single window:

split_rast('R1fqE.jpg', xy$nm[1], xy$llx[1], xy$lly[1], 100, 100)

Example applying it to the first 10 windows:

mapply(split_rast, 'R1fqE.jpg', xy$nm[1:10], xy$llx[1:10], xy$lly[1:10], 100, 100)

Example using parLapply to run in parallel:

library(parallel)
cl <- makeCluster(4) # e.g. use 4 cores
clusterExport(cl, c('split_rast', 'xy')) 

system.time({
  parLapply(cl, seq_len(nrow(xy)), function(i) {
    split_rast('R1fqE.jpg', xy$nm[i], xy$llx[i], xy$lly[i], 100, 100)  
  })
})
stopCluster(cl)