process_nlcd: Process land cover data

In amadeus: Accessing and Analyzing Large-Scale Environmental Data

Process land cover data

Description

The process_nlcd() function imports and cleans raw land cover data, returning a single SpatRaster object.

Reads NLCD file of selected year.

Usage

process_nlcd(path = NULL, year = 2021, extent = NULL, ...)

Arguments

path	character giving nlcd data path
year	numeric giving the year of NLCD data used
extent	numeric(4) or SpatExtent giving the extent of the raster if NULL (default), the entire raster is loaded
...	Placeholders.

Value

a SpatRaster object

Author(s)

Eva Marques, Insang Song

Examples

## NOTE: Example is wrapped in `\dontrun{}` as function requires a large
##       amount of data which is not included in the package.
## Not run: 
nlcd <- process_nlcd(
  path = "./data/",
  year = 2021
)

## End(Not run)

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