knitr::opts_chunk$set( collapse = TRUE, comment = "#>" ) library(landscapetools)
landscapetools is not a coherent package designed for a specific scientific purpose, it is rather a collection of functions to perform some of the less-glamorous tasks involved in landscape analysis.
It is basically designed to accompany all the packages in r-spatialecology and keep them lightweight. Hence, the functionality has a broad spectrum and we try to cover here some things one might miss about landscapetools.
There are a plethora of R packages to visualize spatial data, all of them covering unique aspects and ways to do that (find a short introduction here). With NLMR, we needed a way to visualize landscapes without much fuss and also have a way to visualize many of them in a way we found sufficient.
# Plot continous landscapes show_landscape(gradient_landscape) # Plot continous landscapes show_landscape(classified_landscape, discrete = TRUE) # RasterStack/RasterBrick show_landscape(raster::stack(gradient_landscape, random_landscape), discrete = TRUE) # Plot a list of raster (list names become facet text) show_landscape(list("Gradient landscape" = gradient_landscape, "Random landscape" = random_landscape)) # Plot multiple raster with unique scales show_landscape(raster::stack(gradient_landscape, random_landscape, classified_landscape), unique_scales = TRUE)
In landscape ecology, many people often work with landscapes that reflect a matrix / habitat context.
If you work with simulated landscale, util_binarize
is a convienent wrapper to achieve this.
You can define a value in the range of your landscape values and get a binary reflection of it:
# Binarize the landscape into habitat and matrix binarized_raster <- util_binarize(fractal_landscape, breaks = 0.31415) show_landscape(binarized_raster) # You can also provide a vector with thresholds and get a RasterStack with multiple binarized maps binarized_raster <- util_binarize(fractal_landscape, breaks = c(0.25, 0.5, 0.7)) show_landscape(binarized_raster)
Complementary to util_binarize
, util_classify
classifies a
landscape with continuous values into n discrete classes.
The function is quite the workhorse, so I will spent some more details here
to explain everything:
# Mode 1: Classify landscape into 3 classes based on the Fisher-Jenks algorithm: mode_1 <- util_classify(fractal_landscape, n = 3) # Mode 2: Classify landscapes into landscape with exact proportions: mode_2 <- util_classify(fractal_landscape, weighting = c(0.5, 0.25, 0.25)) # Mode 3: Classify landscapes based on a real dataset (which we first create here) # and the distribution of values in this real dataset mode_3 <- util_classify(gradient_landscape, n = 3) ## Mode 3a: ... now we just have to provide the "real landscape" (mode_3) mode_3a <- util_classify(fractal_landscape, real_land = mode_3) ## Mode 3b: ... and we can also say that certain values are not important for our classification: mode_3b <- util_classify(fractal_landscape, real_land = mode_3, mask_val = 1) landscapes <- list( 'Mode 1' = mode_1, 'Mode 2' = mode_2, 'Mode 3' = mode_3, 'Mode 3a' = mode_3a, 'Mode 3b' = mode_3b ) show_landscape(landscapes, unique_scales = TRUE, nrow = 1) # ... you can also name the classes: classified_raster <- util_classify(fractal_landscape, n = 3, level_names = c("Land Use 1", "Land Use 2", "Land Use 3")) show_landscape(classified_raster, discrete = TRUE)
util_rescale
l linearly rescale element values in a raster to a range between 0 and 1.
library(raster) landscape <- raster(matrix(1:100, 10, 10)) summary(landscape) scaled_landscape <- util_rescale(landscape) summary(scaled_landscape)
util_merge
most likely makes sense in the context of NLMR. If you merge multiple
neutral landscapes models, you can create more feasible landscape
patterns for certain questions, or come up with ecotones if you
merge fractal patterns with gradients.
# Merge all maps into one merg <- util_merge(fractal_landscape, c(gradient_landscape, random_landscape), scalingfactor = 1) # Plot an overview merge_vis <- list( "1) Primary" = fractal_landscape, "2) Secondary 1" = gradient_landscape, "3) Secondary 2" = random_landscape, "4) Result" = merg ) show_landscape(merge_vis)
Some propriatery requires that .asc files have the same line breaks as ESRI ArcMap produces. As we didn't find a correct parser in R, we wrote our on:
util_rescale(fractal_landscape, "fractal.asc")
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