slopeSuit: A function for assessing slope suitability requirements for...

In soilassessment: Assessment Models for Agriculture Soil Conditions and Crop Suitability

A function for assessing slope suitability requirements for certain crops and trees

Description

This function determines the suitability classes for slope requirements of selected agricultural crops and forest trees

Usage

slopeSuit(value, crop)

Arguments

value	Input land slope in degrees.
crop	The crop of interest for which slope suitability class is sought.

Details

The input value can be map or just a numerical entry of slope in degrees

Value

The output is slope suitability class for the crop. The output is an integer value for suitability class: 1- highly suitable; 2 - moderately suitable; 3 - marginally suitable; 4 - currently not suitable; 5 - not suitable

Note

The input slope value must be in degrees

Author(s)

Christian Thine Omuto

References

Sys, C., Van Ranst, E., Debaveye, J. and Beerneaert, F.1993. Land evaluation: Part III: Crop requirements. Development Cooperation, Belgium.

Naidu, L.G.K., Ramamurthy, V., Challa O., Hegde, R. and Krishnan, P. 2006. Manual, Soil-site Suitability Criteria for Major Crops, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, ICAR, Nagpur, India

FAO Crop Suitability Requirements: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/home

See Also

LGPSuit, tempSuit, suitability

Examples

slopeSuit(23.4,"carrot")
library(sp)
slopeSuit(23.4,"carrot")
slope=suitabinput["slope"]
slope$tea=slopeSuit(slope$slope,"tea")
slope$carrot=slopeSuit(slope$slope,"carrot")
summary(slope$carrot)
spplot(slope["carrot"])

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