landcover: Landcover data

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Landcover data

Description

Landcover data at 30-seconds spatial resolution for (most of) the world. Values are the fraction of a landcover class in each cell. The values are derived from the ESA WorldCover data set at 0.3-seconds resolution. (License CC BY 4.0). See https://esa-worldcover.org/en for more information.

Usage

landcover(var, path, ...) 

Arguments

var	character. One of "trees", "grassland", "shrubs", "cropland", "built", "bare", "snow", "water", "wetland", "mangroves", "moss"
path	character. Path for storing the downloaded data. See geodata_path
...	additional arguments passed to download.file

Value

SpatRaster

References

Zanaga, D., Van De Kerchove, R., De Keersmaecker, W., Souverijns, N., Brockmann, C., Quast, R., Wevers, J., Grosu, A., Paccini, A., Vergnaud, S., Cartus, O., Santoro, M., Fritz, S., Georgieva, I., Lesiv, M., Carter, S., Herold, M., Li, Linlin, Tsendbazar, N.E., Ramoino, F., Arino, O., 2021. ESA WorldCover 10 m 2020 v100. doi:10.5281/zenodo.5571936.

See Also

landcover

geodata documentation built on June 22, 2024, 10:30 a.m.