SIInBC: Derive site index for a given spatial coverage or a spatial...
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SIInBC

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Derive site index for a given spatial coverage or a spatial point

Description

This function is to derive species' site index for a given spatial coverage or spatial points based on BC provincial species productivity maps.

Usage

SIInBC(SIMapPath, spatialCoverage, species = "all", returnClass = "table")

Arguments

`SIMapPath`	character, Specifies folder location of species index maps. Please request all the maps from author and save them into your target folder. The function only supports `TIFF` format. Currently those maps were converted from BC Data catalogue.
`spatialCoverage`	spatialPolygons or spatialPoints, Specifies spatial polygons or spatial points that need to intersect.
`species`	character, Must be one or some of 22 species.
`returnClass`	character, Specifies the class you intended to return from either `sp` or `table`. If missing, `table` will be used.

Value

the returned value depends on returnClass arguement and class of spatialCoverage arguement. If returnClass is set as table, a table will be returned. If returnClass is set as sp, a raster layer will be returned for SpatialPolygons* objects, while a SpatialPointDataframe will be returned for SpatialPoints* objects.