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Execute a lazy raster and stream it to a GeoTIFF.

write_tif.Rd

The file-writing sibling of collect(): executes the plan (same routes, same daemons) and streams the result to path chunk by chunk, so the full raster never sits in memory. Returns the path invisibly; collect() always returns the in-session array.

Usage

write_tif(
  x,
  path,
  dtype = NULL,
  scale = NULL,
  offset = NULL,
  nodata = NULL,
  cog = FALSE,
  creation_options = NULL,
  overview_resampling = c("average", "nearest", "bilinear", "cubic", "mode", "rms"),
  band_names = NULL,
  distributed = garry_daemons_set()
)

Arguments

x

A LazyRaster, a LazyDataset (bands assembled along the band axis), a named list of lazy rasters (multi-export: one plan, one file per sink), or a LazyDatasetGroups (the result of group_by_time(); one file per group via a {group} placeholder in path).

path

Destination path. For a named-list input: a directory (files named <sink>.tif) or a named character vector keyed by sink.

dtype

Output dtype override (e.g. "i16", "u8"); default keeps the plan's dtype (usually "f32").

scale, offset

Quantization affine (see Details). Requires an integer dtype; offset defaults to 0.

nodata

Sentinel written to the file and used for NaN demotion, in stored (DN) units. Required when an integer dtype output can contain NaN.

cog

Write a Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (see Details).

creation_options

GDAL creation options ("KEY=VALUE"). With cog = FALSE these replace the default tiled-DEFLATE options of the streamed write; with cog = TRUE they go to the COG translate pass (the temporary streamed file keeps the defaults).

overview_resampling

COG overview resampling (cog = TRUE only). "average" (default) suits continuous data; use "nearest" for categorical outputs like masks.

band_names

As in collect().

distributed

As in collect().

Value

The written path(s), invisibly (expanded per sink/group for list, directory, and {group} forms).

Details

dtype with scale/offset quantizes at the sink boundary: values are stored as round((v - offset) / scale) (round half to even) and the affine is written as band scale/offset metadata, so GDAL readers (QGIS, lazy_source(scale = TRUE)) recover physical values. An int16 reflectance file is half the raw bytes of float32 and compresses far better. NaN demotes to nodata, which is stored in DN units and must sit outside the quantized data range.

cog = TRUE streams to a temporary tiled GeoTIFF beside path, then finalises with one gdal_translate pass to the COG driver (which is copy-only by design: overviews precede full-res data). The extra sequential pass is the trade every COG producer makes; the temporary file is removed even on failure, so path never holds a half-written COG.

See also

collect() to return the result in the R session; materialise() to checkpoint to local cubes and stay lazy.