Hello, I am having some troubles extracting pixels from a raster using polygons. When I attempt to do so, pixels which are only partially intersected by polygons are not included.
In the example below the number of pixels returned is less than the number of pixels which can be seen intersecting polygons. As an aside I also encountered strange behavior in my example below after buffering polygons by 10 units. After buffering polygons by 10 units, the number of pixels return by extract was actually reduced. Example r <- raster(ncol=5, nrow=5) r[] <- 1:ncell(r) cds1 <- rbind(c(-180,-20), c(-160,5), c(-60, 0), c(-160,-70), c(-180,-20)) cds2 <- rbind(c(80,0), c(100,60), c(120,0), c(120,-55), c(80,0)) polys <- spPolygons(cds1, cds2) plot(r) plot(polys, add=TRUE) plot(buffer(polys,10,dissolve=F), add=TRUE) plot(buffer(polys,30,dissolve=F), add=TRUE) plot(buffer(polys,100,dissolve=F), add=TRUE) extract(r, polys) extract(r, buffer(polys,10,dissolve=F)) extract(r, buffer(polys,30,dissolve=F)) extract(r, buffer(polys,100,dissolve=F)) my R output: > extract(r, polys) [[1]] [1] 11 12 16 [[2]] [1] 14 4 15 25 > extract(r, buffer(polys,10,dissolve=F)) [[1]] [1] 11 12 16 [[2]] 14 > extract(r, buffer(polys,30,dissolve=F)) [[1]] [1] 11 12 16 17 21 [[2]] [1] 9 14 15 19 20 25 > extract(r, buffer(polys,100,dissolve=F)) [[1]] [1] 1 2 3 6 7 8 11 12 13 16 17 18 21 22 23 [[2]] [1] 3 4 5 8 9 10 13 14 15 18 19 20 24 25 > R.Version() $platform [1] "x86_64-w64-mingw32" $arch [1] "x86_64" $os [1] "mingw32" $system [1] "x86_64, mingw32" $status [1] "" $major [1] "3" $minor [1] "3.2" $year [1] "2016" $month [1] "10" $day [1] "31" $`svn rev` [1] "71607" $language [1] "R" $version.string [1] "R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31)" $nickname [1] "Sincere Pumpkin Patch" "Documentation for package ‘raster’ version 2.5-8" from Raster help pages Thanks for any help -- Jacob [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.