addUSGSElevation: Add Elevation Data to a Dataframe

In MazamaScience/PWFSLSmoke: Utilities for Working with Air Quality Monitoring Data

Add Elevation Data to a Dataframe

Description

USGS APIs are used to determine elevation associated with the locations specified by the lonVar and latVar columns of the incoming dataframe.

Usage

addUSGSElevation(
  df,
  lonVar = "longitude",
  latVar = "latitude",
  existingMeta = NULL
)

Arguments

df	dataframe with geolocation information (e.g. created by wrcc_qualityControl() or airsis_qualityControl)
lonVar	name of longitude variable in the incoming dataframe
latVar	name of the latitude variable in the incoming dataframe
existingMeta	existing 'meta' dataframe from which to obtain metadata for known monitor deployments

Value

Input dataframe with (possibly) additional column: elevation.

References

https://nationalmap.gov/epqs/

MazamaScience/PWFSLSmoke documentation built on July 3, 2023, 11:03 a.m.