Question

I have a raster stack with 27 rasters in it. I have 27 corresponding polygons in a spatial polygon data frame. I want to take polygon[i] overlay it on raster[i], extract and sum the values from raster [i], get a count of the number of cells within the polygon[i] and then divide the sum value by the # of cells. In other words, the raster is a utilization distribution or a kernel density of use. I want to know much use is occurring in the area of the polygon where it is overlapping the raster. I want to divide by the number of cells in the polygon to take into account the size of the polygon.

I have a script that was given to me that does this, only it was written with the intention of extracting data from 1 raster only by any number of spatial polygons in the data frame. It works, its ugly, and I now would like to convert it to something more stream line. I only wish I had someone around me who could help because this might take a while?

This is code Ive been given and my summary of what I think is going on:

msum99Kern07 = SpatialPolygonDataFrame (many polygons)
KERNWolfPIX07m = Raster (this is a single raster, I have 27 rasters I put into a stack

)

#Extracting value from raster to many polygons 
sRISK_Moose07m<- extract(KERNWolfPIX07m, msum99Kern07,df=FALSE,method='bilinear')

#Calculate THE SUM FOR EACH polygon#
sRISK_Moose07m<-unlist(lapply(sRISK_Moose07m, function(x) if (!is.null(x)) sum(x, na.rm=TRUE) else NA ))
sRISK_Moose07m<-as.data.frame(sRISK_Moose07m)

#Im not sure why these next commands are needed Im only guessing
#data.frame(levels) as there are many polygons creating a dataframe to put the info into
ID_SUM_07<-as.data.frame(levels(as.factor(msum07locs$ID2)))
#ADD ID TO THE risk data frame 
sRISK_Moose07m$ID<-ID_SUM_07[,1] 

#NUMBER OF CELLS WITHIN POLYGON EXTRACT CELLS/ POLYGON
NB_SUM2007m<-cellFromPolygon(KERNWolfPIX07m, msum99Kern07)
NB_SUM07m<-unlist(lapply(NB_SUM2007m, function(x) if (!is.null(x)) length(x) else NA ))

#####CONVERT TO DATA FRAME
NB_SUM07m<-as.data.frame(NB_SUM07m)

###ADD THE NB OF CELLS TO THE RISK_SUM FILE###
sRISK_Moose07m$NB_CELLS<-NB_SUM07m[,1]

###DIVIDING VALUE by NB CELLS##
sRISK_Moose07m$DIVID<-sRISK_Moose07m$sRISK_Moose07m/sRISK_Moose07m$NB_CELLS 

Now, I have my spatial polygon data frame with 27 polygons and my raster stack with 27 rasters. I want to select the raster[i] and polygon[i] and extract, sum, and calculate the kernel density of the overlapping area. One side thing to keep in mind, I may get an error because it is possible that the polygon and raster do not overlap…I don’t know how to check for this in R at all.

My script I have started:

moose99kern = spatial polygon data frame 27 moose
Rastwtrial = stack of 27 rasters having the same unique name as the ID in moose99kern

mkernID=unique(moose99kern$id)

for (i in length(mkernID)){
           r = Rastwtrial[Rastwtrial[[i]]== mkernID[i]] #pick frm Rasterstack the raster that has the same name
            mp = moose99kern[moose99kern$id == mkernID[i]] #pick from spatialpolygondataframe the polygon that has the same name 

            RISK_MooseTrial<- extract(r, mp, df=T, method'bilinear')
            risksum = (RISK_MooseTrial, function(x) if (!is.null(x)) sum(x, na.rm=TRUE) else NA )#sum all the values that were extracted from the raster

My script doesn’t even start to work because I don’t know how to index a raster stack. But even still, going through 1 raster/1polygon at a time, Im not sure what to do next in the code. If this is too much for StackOverflow I apologize. Im just seriously stuck and have no where to turn.
Here is test data with 2 individuals for polygons

 dput(mtestpoly) 
    new("SpatialPolygonsDataFrame"
        , data = structure(list(id = structure(1:2, .Label = c("F01001_1", "F07002_1"
    ), class = "factor"), area = c(1259.93082578125, 966.364499511719
    )), .Names = c("id", "area"), row.names = c("F01001_1", "F07002_1"
    ), class = "data.frame")
        , polygons = list(<S4 object of class structure("Polygons", package = "sp")>, 
        <S4 object of class structure("Polygons", package = "sp")>)
        , plotOrder = 1:2
        , bbox = structure(c(6619693.77161797, 1480549.31292137, 6625570.48348294, 
    1485861.5586371), .Dim = c(2L, 2L), .Dimnames = list(c("x", "y"
    ), c("min", "max")))
        , proj4string = new("CRS"
        , projargs = NA_character_

dput(Rastwtest)

new("RasterStack"
    , filename = ""
    , layers = list(<S4 object of class structure("RasterLayer", package = "raster")>, 
    <S4 object of class structure("RasterLayer", package = "raster")>)
    , title = character(0)
    , extent = new("Extent"
    , xmin = 1452505.6959799
    , xmax = 1515444.7110552
    , ymin = 6575235.1959799
    , ymax = 6646756.8040201
)
    , rotated = FALSE
    , rotation = new(".Rotation"
    , geotrans = numeric(0)
    , transfun = function () 
NULL
)
    , ncols = 176L
    , nrows = 200L
    , crs = new("CRS"
    , projargs = NA_character_
)
    , z = list()
    , layernames = "Do not use the layernames slot (it is obsolete and will be removed)\nUse function 'names'"
)

Answer 1

Maybe I miss something , but I think you over complicated the problem. For me you have :

1. stack of raster : a list of raster : ss
2. a list of polygons of the same size as ss : polys

You need to apply extract for each pair(layer,poly) from (ss,polys)

sapply(1:nlayers(ss), function(i) {
     m <- extract(ss[[i]],polys[i], method='bilinear', na.rm= T)[[1]]
     d <- ifelse (!is.null(m) , sum(m)/length(m), NA)
     d
})

Here an example of 2 legnths since you don’t give a reproducible example :

## generate some data
library(raster)
cds1 <- rbind(c(-180,-20), c(-160,5), c(-60, 0), c(-160,-60), c(-180,-20))
cds2 <- rbind(c(80,0), c(100,60), c(120,0), c(120,-55), c(80,0))
## In your case you need something like SpatialPolygons(moose99kern)
polys <- SpatialPolygons(list(Polygons(list(Polygon(cds1)), 1), 
                              Polygons(list(Polygon(cds2)), 2)))
r   <- raster(ncol=36, nrow=18)
r[] <- 1:ncell(r)
r1   <- raster(ncol=36, nrow=18)
r1[] <- seq(-1,-2,length.out=ncell(r1))
ss <- stack(r,r1)
## density compute
sapply(1:nlayers(ss), function(i) {
         ## sum of values of the cells of a Raster ss[[i]] covered by the poly polys[i]
         m <- extract(ss[[i]],polys[i], method='bilinear', na.rm= T)[[1]]
         d <- ifelse (!is.null(m) , sum(m)/length(m), NA)

})

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