I am working with a dataset that consists of 20 layers, stacked in a RasterBrick (originating from an array). I have looked into the sum of the layers, calculated with both 'calc' and 'cellStats'. I have used calc to calculate the sum of the total values and cellStats to look at the average of the values per layer (useful for a time series). However, when I sum the average of each layer, it is half the value of the other calculated sum. What causes this difference? What am I overlooking?
Code looks like this:
testarray <- runif(54214776,0,1)
# Although testarray should contain a raster of 127x147 with 2904 time layers.
# Not really sure how to create that yet.
for (i in 1830:1849){
slice<-array2[,,i]
r <- raster(nrow=(127*5), ncol=(147*5), resolution =5, ext=ext1, vals=slice)
x <- stack(x , r)
}
brickhp2 <- brick(x)
r_sumhp2 <- calc(brickhp2, sum, na.rm=TRUE)
r_sumhp2[r_sumhp2<= 0] <- NA
SWEavgpertimestepM <- cellStats(brickhp2, stat='mean', na.rm=TRUE)
The goal is to compare the sum of the layers calculated with 'calc(x, sum)' with the sum of the mean calculated with 'cellStats(x, mean)'.
Rasterbrick looks like this (600kb, GTiff) : http://www.filedropper.com/brickhp2 *If there is a better way to share this, please let me know.
The confusion comes as you are using calc which operates pixel-wise on a brick (i.e. performs the calculation on the 20 values at each pixel and returns a single raster layer) and cellStats which performs the calculation on each raster layer individually and returns a single values for each layer. You can see that the results are comparable if you use this code:
library(raster)
##set seed so you get the same runif vals
set.seed(999)
##create example rasters
ls=list()
for (i in 1:20){
r <- raster(nrow=(127*5), ncol=(147*5), vals=runif(127*5*147*5))
ls[[i]] <- r
}
##create raster brick
brickhp2 <- brick(ls)
##calc sum (pixel-wise)
r_sumhp2 <- calc(brickhp2, sum, na.rm=TRUE)
r_sumhp2 ##returns raster layer
##calc mean (layer-wise)
r_meanhp2 <- cellStats(brickhp2, stat='mean', na.rm=TRUE)
r_meanhp2 ##returns vector of length nlayers(brickhp2)
##to get equivalent values you need to divide r_sumhp2 by the number of layers
##and then calculate the mean
cellStats(r_sumhp2/nlayers(brickhp2),stat="mean")
[1] 0.4999381
##and for r_meanhp2 you need to calculate the mean of the means
mean(r_meanhp2)
[1] 0.4999381
You will need to determine for yourself if you want to use the pixel or layer wise result for your application.