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get cell number within a distance of one point (raster)

I need to get the cell numbers within a distance (e.g., 10 km) of one point using R, but I didn't figure out how to handle it for the raster data.

library(raster)
r <- raster(ncols=10, nrows=10)
cellFromXY(r, c(2,2)) # get the cell number of one point

How to get the cell numbers within a distance of one point?

Solution

  • Use extract with the buffer option and cellnumbers=TRUE

    r <- raster(ncols=100, nrows=100)
  r[]<-runif(ncell(r))

xy <- cbind(-50, seq(-80, 80, by=20))
extract(r, xy[1:3,], buffer=1000000,cellnumbers=TRUE)