Retrieve DEM data from a list of STAC assets

Load DEM data from a list of tiles, crop and merge using a given bounding box to create a raster DEM for the specified region. Results are cached, so that new queries with the same input parameters will be loaded from disk.

Usage

load_dem(bb, tile_urls, force_download = FALSE)

Arguments

bb

A bounding box, provided either as a matrix (rows for "x", "y", columns for "min", "max") or as a vector ("xmin", "ymin", "xmax", "ymax") of class bbox.

tile_urls

A list of tiles where to read the DEM data from

force_download

Download data even if cached data is available

Value

A DEM of class terra::SpatRaster, retrieved and retiled to the given bounding box

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
bb <- get_osm_bb("Bucharest")
tile_urls <- get_stac_asset_urls(bb)
load_dem(bb = bb, tile_urls = tile_urls, force_download = TRUE)
}