wisconsin_lakes: Wisconsin Lake Sampling Sites

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Wisconsin Lake Sampling Sites

Description

A dataset containing example sampling sites from well-known Wisconsin lakes. These coordinates are useful for testing with real lake boundaries from OpenStreetMap.

Usage

wisconsin_lakes

Format

A data frame with 8 rows and 4 variables:

Site

Unique site identifier

lake.name

Name of the lake

latitude

Latitude in decimal degrees (WGS84)

longitude

Longitude in decimal degrees (WGS84)

Details

The dataset includes sites from three Wisconsin lakes:

• Lake Mendota (3 sites) - Madison's largest lake, well-studied

• Lake Monona (2 sites) - Connected to Mendota via Yahara River

• Geneva Lake (3 sites) - Popular recreational lake in SE Wisconsin

Source

Synthetic data based on real lake locations

Examples

# Load the dataset
data(wisconsin_lakes)

# View the data
head(wisconsin_lakes)

# Use with lakefetch (requires internet connection)

sites <- load_sites(wisconsin_lakes)
lake_data <- get_lake_boundary(sites)
results <- fetch_calculate(sites, lake_data)

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