addSite: Add detail information about the observation site

In RObsDat: Data Management for Hydrology and Beyond Using the Observations Data Model

Description

Information about the spatial location at which data values have been collected.

Usage

addSite(Code, Name, x, y, Elevation = rep(0, length(Code)),
                 LatLongDatum, LocalProjection = NULL, isLocal = NULL,
                 VerticalDatum = NULL, PositionAccuracy = rep(0,
                 length(Code)), State = NULL, County = NULL, Comment = NULL)

Arguments

Code	Code used by organization that collects the data to identify the site
Name	Full name of the sampling site.
x	x coordinate
y	y coordinate
Elevation	Elevation of sampling location (in m).
LatLongDatum	Spatial Reference System of the latitude and longitude coordinates
LocalProjection	Spatial Reference System of the local coordinates
isLocal	Boolean, indicating if x and y are in the lat/long or local coordinate system.
VerticalDatum	Vertical datum of the elevation.
PositionAccuracy	Value giving the accuracy with which the positional information is specified in meters.
State	Name of state in which the monitoring site is located.
County	Name of county in which the monitoring site is located.
Comment	Additional comments for the location.

Value

Nothing is returned.

Author(s)

Dominik Reusser

See Also

Use getMetadata to retrieve values.

Examples

#connect to standard database
getDefaultDB()

#add data
addSite(Code="10109000", Name="LOGAN RIVER ABOVE STATE DAM, NEAR LOGAN,UT", 
	x=-100.47, y= 45.32, LatLongDatum="WGS84", Elevation="1432", 
	VerticalDatum="NAVD88", PositionAccuracy=100, Stat="Utah")

getMetadata(table="Site", Name="LOGAN")

RObsDat documentation built on May 29, 2017, 12:07 p.m.