process_multi_pcl: Process multiple PCL transects.

In atkinsjeff/forestr: Ecosystem and Canopy Structural Complexity Metrics from LiDAR

Process multiple PCL transects.

Description

process_multi_pcl imports and processes multiple PCL transect.

Usage

process_multi_pcl(
  data_dir,
  user_height = NULL,
  method = NULL,
  k = NULL,
  marker.spacing = NULL,
  max.vai = NULL,
  ht.thresh = NULL,
  pavd = FALSE,
  hist = FALSE,
  save_output = TRUE
)

Arguments

data_dir	directory where PCL .csv files are stored
user_height	height of laser from ground based on user in meters
method	"MH" is MacArthur-Horn and "Bohrer" is the Bohrer method
k	correction coeff for MH method (default is 1)
marker.spacing	space between markers in the PCL data, in meters
max.vai	the maximum value of column VAI. The default is 8. Should be a max value, not a mean.
ht.thresh	the height at which to filter values below
pavd	logical input to include Plant Area Volume Density Plot from [plot_pavd], if TRUE it is included, if FALSE, it is not.
hist	logical input to include histogram of VAI with PAVD plot, if TRUE it is included, if FALSE, it is not.
save_output	needs to be set to true, or else you are just going to get a lot of data on the screen

Details

This is a specific function that works using the input of a data directory of .csv files where the function cycles through the files there and processes multiple files, producing the same output files described in process_pcl

Value

writes the hit matrix, summary matrix, and output variables to csv in an output folder, along with hit grid plot

See Also

process_pcl

Examples

# This function works on a directory of raw PCL data
## Not run: data_directory <- "./data/PCL_transects/"  #data directory containing PCL transects
process_multi_pcl(data_directory, user_height = 1.05, marker.spacing = 10,
max.vai = 8, ht.thresh = 60, pavd = FALSE, h
ist = FALSE, save_output = FALSE)

process_multi_pcl("./data/PCL_transects/", user_height = 1.05, marker.spacing = 10,
max.vai = 8, ht.thresh = 60, pavd = FALSE, hist = FALSE, save_output = FALSE)

## End(Not run)

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