A raster time series object is created by combining a RasterStack
or RasterBrick
objct, defined in raster and a xts
object in xts-package
.
RasterStack
or RasterBrick
can be created by using stack
and brick
functions, respectively in raster-package
. If a character vector including the name of raster files is used for x
, stack
function is internally called by rts
. time
information is handled by xts
object. The date/time values in the vector of time
should be correspond to the raster files (i.e. first date/time for first raster, ...) and have the same length as the number of rasters in x
.
If a name of a raster time series file is provided for the x
argument, it acts the same as coderead.rts.
If x
is the name of Raster Time Series file (a character), it calls read.rts
to read the file. By default, the Raster Time Series is read as the class of SpatRasterTS
, but the user can provide cls
argument to specify a different rts class (e.g., cls='RasterBrickTS'
)