fix: despeckle ESA WorldCover grid to remove single-pixel land-cover noise (#1165)#1182
fix: despeckle ESA WorldCover grid to remove single-pixel land-cover noise (#1165)#1182devops2626 wants to merge 8 commits into
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@louis-e – Meow! 🐱 This PR is now ready for your review.
I've added a despeckle_land_cover majority filter that targets the exact single-pixel noise from the ESA WorldCover grid, which was causing the "weird dots on grass" shown in #1165. It's a self-contained additive change that doesn't break any existing downstream logic, and the CI checks should be passing.
Let me know if you'd like any changes to the neighbor-window size (8 vs 4) or the despeckle threshold. I'm happy to tweak it!
Thanks for your time, and hope the green cat logo approves! 😸🐾
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Fixed the land_cover module duplication (removed conflicting land_cover.rs) and added proper imports for constants in biome.rs / climate.rs. |
Diagnosis
Regression since v2.5.1 (ESA WorldCover land-cover integration).
Ground::cover_class()does a nearest-neighbor lookup into the 10m/pixel ESA WorldCover grid.ESA WorldCover's raw classification has pixel-level noise: a uniform field of grass routinely contains isolated 10m cells misclassified as shrubland, cropland, or bare ground. Since v2.5.1, each land-cover class maps to a distinct Minecraft block, so those single-pixel misclassifications render as one-block "dots" (as shown in #1165).
We already solve this for water using
water_blend_grid(Gaussian blur). This PR adds the same denoising for all other land-cover classes.Fix
Adds a
despeckle_land_coverpass (majority filter) right after the raw grid is fetched. It replaces any cell that disagrees with all 8 of its neighbors with the modal (most common) neighbor class. This removes isolated single-cell noise while preserving real multi-cell regions (like actual shrubland patches or field boundaries).The code is self-contained, additive, and requires no changes to downstream consumers.
Testing
I tested this locally using the
--debugflag to generatelandcover_debug.png. The speckled 1-pixel noise inside uniform regions is removed, while all class boundaries remain sharp.Closes #1165 and closes #1181..