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Pits and spikes filling for raster. Typically used for post-processing CHM. This algorithm is from St-Onge 2008 (see reference).

Usage

pit_fill(
  raster,
  lap_size = 3L,
  thr_lap = 0.1,
  thr_spk = -0.1,
  med_size = 3L,
  dil_radius = 0L,
  ofile = temptif()
)

Arguments

raster

LASRalgorithm. A stage that produces a raster.

lap_size

integer. Size of the Laplacian filter kernel (integer value, in pixels).

thr_lap

numeric. Threshold Laplacian value for detecting a cavity (all values above this value will be considered a cavity). A positive value.

thr_spk

numeric. Threshold Laplacian value for detecting a spike (all values below this value will be considered a spike). A negative value.

med_size

integer. Size of the median filter kernel (integer value, in pixels).

dil_radius

integer. Dilation radius (integer value, in pixels).

ofile

character. Full outputs are always stored on disk. If ofile = "" then the stage will not store the result on disk and will return nothing. It will however hold partial output results temporarily in memory. This is useful for stage that are only intermediate stage.

References

St-Onge, B., 2008. Methods for improving the quality of a true orthomosaic of Vexcel UltraCam images created using alidar digital surface model, Proceedings of the Silvilaser 2008, Edinburgh, 555-562. https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=81365288221f3ac34b51a82e2cfed8d58defb10e

Examples

f <- system.file("extdata", "MixedConifer.las", package="lasR")

reader <- reader_las(filter = keep_first())
tri <- triangulate()
chm <- rasterize(0.25, tri)
pit <- pit_fill(chm)
u <- exec(reader + tri + chm + pit, on = f)

chm <- u[[1]]
sto <- u[[2]]

#terra::plot(c(chm, sto), col = lidR::height.colors(25))