Merging multiple rasters in R

Question

I\'ve been trying to find a time-efficient way to merge multiple raster images in R. These are adjacent ASTER scenes from the southern Kilimanjaro region, and my target is to pu

Answer 1

SAGA GIS mosaicking tool (http://www.saga-gis.org/saga_tool_doc/7.3.0/grid_tools_3.html) gives you maximum flexibility for merging numeric layers, and it runs in parallel by default! You only have to translate all rasters/images to SAGA .sgrd format first, then run the command line saga_cmd.