mergeAllVolTrees: Merge all volume trees-VRI specific

In bcgov/BCForestGroundSample: BC forest ground sample compilation

Description

Merge all the volume trees, including full trees (fully-measure trees in IPC), enhanced trees (fully-measured trees in auxi plots), H-enhanced trees (Height measured in auxi plots) and non-enhanced trees (only DBH measured in auxi plots). The function is part of vol_ha_2017.sas and modified dramatically in R compiler.

Usage

mergeAllVolTrees(treeMS, treeAX)

## S4 method for signature 'data.table,data.table'
mergeAllVolTrees(treeMS, treeAX)

Arguments

treeMS	data.table, Compiled full, enhanced and H-enhanced trees. This data should be listed in vi_c table. This data is an output of DWBCompiler
treeAX	data.table, Non-enhanced trees in anxilirary plots (vi_i). Supposedly, the table only contains non-enhanced tree list. However, some enhanced and H-enhanced trees also been stored in this dataset. An output from VRIInit_auxTree.

Value

A data table that contains all volume trees without duplicates. Equivalent to tree_vb table.

Author(s)

Yong Luo

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