I am using the focal function in the terra package to fill holes in a DEM raster. However, after running focal(m, w=19, fun=mean, na.policy="only", na.rm=TRUE)
my DEM is moved ~11cm relative to it's original position (see images below). This problem does not occur when I simply read in the raster using rast()
and then write it using writeRaster()
, but it happens when I use focal()
regardless of whether I save the output using writeRaster()
or using the filename =
argument within focal()
.
I have also noticed that the larger the window size used, the greater the movement of the output raster. A window size of 9 produced ~5cm error. Raster pixels are ~1.2cm in size so focal()
appears to be causing a movement of ~1/2 the width of the window used. As far as I can tell the movement is straight up/north.
Any idea why this might be occuring and how it could be avoided?
This the correctly aligned raster:
And this is after running focal (w = 19):
That is a bug that, I believe, has been fixed in the development version of terra
available at https://github.com/rspatial/terra (and that is also the best place to report bugs). Can you please try it?