R: Write RasterStack and preserve layer names

不羁岁月 提交于 2019-12-03 08:52:12

问题


I have a raster stack, stk, consisting of three raster images in R. Here is a simple example

# set up a raster stack with three layers
> library(raster)
> r <- raster(nrows=10,ncols=10)
> r[] <- rnorm(100)
> stk <- stack(r,r,r)

# layer names are set by default
> names(stk)
[1] "layer.1" "layer.2" "layer.3"

I assign names to the raster layers:

# set layer names to "one", "two" and "three"
> names(stk) <- c('one','two','three')

> names(stk)
[1] "one" "two" "three"

When I write the RasterStack to a GeoTiff (multilayered) using:

writeRaster(stk,"myStack.tif", format="GTiff")

The layers are renamed based on the filename (see > names(stk) below).

When I read in the raster stack:

> stk <- stack("myStack.tif")

# the layer names have been set automatically based on the filename
# they should be "one", "two" and "three"
> names(stk)
[1] "myStack.1" "myStack.2" "myStack.3"

Do you know of any way to preserve the layer names when writing RasterStacks in R? I have tried writing the stack to GeoTIFF and NetCDF formats.

Thanks, Kevin


回答1:


You can make use of the native raster format:

myRaster <- writeRaster(stk,"myStack.grd", format="raster")

The raster grid format consists of the binary .gri file and the .grd header file. This will preserve your layernames. Note, however, that .gri binary files are not compressed.

If you need to open raster grd files in other programs you will most likely need to write an additional header file. I usually use the ENVI header format to do that.

hdr(myRaster, format = "ENVI")

To open the file from qgis for example you'd select the .gri file (the binary) and it should work.




回答2:


A bit late but might help someone else looking for a possible solution:

writeRaster(stk, filename=names(stk), bylayer=TRUE,format="GTiff")



回答3:


I wrote my files as ENVI files and changed the band names in the ENVI header file. The files can now be opened in ENVI and ArcGis and the layer names are preserved.

#write ENVI file (.envi; .hdr; .envi.aux.xml) with automatic layer names
writeRaster(stk, "myStack" , format="ENVI")

#change layer names in ENVI header (.hdr):
n="myStack.hdr"  
x <- readLines(n)
x <- gsub("Band 1,", "one,", x) 
x <- gsub("Band 2,", "two," , x)
x <- gsub("Band 3", "three", x)  
cat(x, file=n, sep="\n") #overwrites the old ENVI header

/edit I just noticed that when the .envi file is imported back into R the layer names are removed again. Same problem in SAGA.

image <- stack("myStack.envi")  
names(image)
#[1] "myStack.1" "myStack.2" "myStack.3"

image = readGDAL("myStack.envi") 
names(image)
#[1] "band1" "band2" "band3"


来源:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26763013/r-write-rasterstack-and-preserve-layer-names

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