getSpatial: Generic function to derive BEC, TSA and FIZ for given...

In bcgov/BCForestGroundSample: BC forest ground sample compilation

Description

This function is to derive BEC, TSA or FIZ based on an UTM location and BEC map.

Usage

getSpatial(pointID, zone, northing, easting, spatialAttribute = "all",
  mapPath = as.character(NA), mapName = as.character(NA),
  mapFormat = "gdb")

Arguments

pointID	character, Data point ID.
zone	integer, UTM zone.
northing	integer, UTM northing.
easting	integer, UTM easting.
spatialAttribute	character, specifies which spatial attribute to be obtained. Must be one of "BEC", "TSA" or "FIZ". The spatial attribute BEC and TSA are available at bec and tsa. Therefore, for these attributes, mapPath, mapName and mapFormat should not be specified. Since FIZ map is not available neither online nor from any R package. The below arguements must be specified.
mapPath	character, Path to map, must be specified when deriving FIZ.
mapName	character, Map name of fiz, must be specified when deriving FIZ.
mapFormat	character, Map format of fiz, either shp or gdb, must be specified when deriving FIZ.

Value

Depends on what spatial attribute a function derives. For BEC, a table that contains:

• bec_zone bec zone.

• bec_sbz bec subzone.

• bec_var bec variant

For TSA, a table that contains:

• tsa tsa.

• tsa_desc tsa descriptions.

For FIZ, a table that contains:

• fiz fiz.

Author(s)

Yong Luo

bcgov/BCForestGroundSample documentation built on May 25, 2019, 3:21 p.m.