R: Load an existing image collection from a file

image_collection {gdalcubes} | R Documentation

## Load an existing image collection from a file

### Description

This function will load an image collection from an SQLite file. Image collection files index and reference existing imagery. To create a collection from files on disk, use `create_image_collection`.

### Usage

    image_collection(path)

### Arguments

`path` | path to an existing image collection file

### Value

an image collection proxy object, which can be used to create a data cube using `raster_cube`

### Examples

    # create image collection from example Landsat data only
    # if not already done in other examples
    if (!file.exists(file.path(tempdir(), "L8.db"))) {
      L8_files <- list.files(system.file("L8NY18", package = "gdalcubes"),
                             ".TIF", recursive = TRUE, full.names = TRUE)
      create_image_collection(L8_files, "L8_L1TP", file.path(tempdir(), "L8.db"))
    }

    L8.col = image_collection(file.path(tempdir(), "L8.db"))
    L8.col

[Package gdalcubes version 0.3.1 Index]