sieve function

Sieve filter

Apply a sieve filter. That is, remove "noise", by changing small clumps of cells with a value that is different from the surrounding cells, to the value of the largest neighboring clump.

Note that the numerical input values are truncated to integers.

## S4 method for signature 'SpatRaster'
sieve(x, threshold, directions=8, filename="", ...)

Arguments

• x: SpatRaster, single layer with integer or categorical values
• threshold: positive integer. Only clumps smaller than this threshold will be removed
• directions: numeric to indicate which cells are connected. Either 4 to only consider the horizontal and vertical neighbors ("rook"), or 8 to consider the vertical, horizontal and diagonal neighbors
• filename: character. Output filename
• ...: Options for writing files as in writeRaster

See Also

focal

Examples

r <- rast(nrows=18, ncols=18, xmin=0, vals=0, crs="local")
r[2, 5] <- 1
r[5:8, 2:3] <- 2
r[7:12, 10:15] <- 3
r[15:16, 15:18] <- 4
freq(r, bylayer=FALSE)

x <- sieve(r, 8)
y <- sieve(r, 9)