Extracts the values of a single layer in a stars object to a matrix.
layer_to_matrix(x, check = TRUE)A stars raster with one attribute and two dimensions, x and y, i.e., a single-band raster.
Whether to check (and fix if necessary) that input has one attribute, one layer and x-y as dimensions 1-2 (default is TRUE).
A matrix with the layer values, having the same orientation as the raster (i.e., rows represent the y-axis and columns represent the x-axis).
data(dem)
m = layer_to_matrix(dem)
m
#> [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8] [,9] [,10] [,11] [,12] [,13]
#> [1,] 171 140 115 64 44 31 16 6 4 2 0 1 2
#> [2,] 189 167 140 86 60 43 27 14 4 5 0 -2 5
#> [3,] 204 185 166 108 86 62 41 20 5 5 4 5 6
#> [4,] 208 199 183 141 115 91 64 34 15 7 5 7 6
#> [5,] 208 207 203 167 139 112 93 64 39 8 3 4 5
#> [6,] 209 210 211 207 162 140 117 91 69 27 2 1 5
#> [7,] 207 206 208 211 185 167 141 112 87 63 6 1 3
#> [8,] 200 198 197 203 204 188 161 139 113 88 11 1 2
#> [9,] 191 183 184 188 198 196 181 158 135 109 69 10 4
#> [10,] 173 166 168 174 191 191 186 173 163 120 95 26 5
#> [11,] 155 152 153 155 175 177 179 183 166 121 109 32 15