getlandcover: Proportions of provinces per landcover

In choisy/globcoverVN: Land cover data for Vietnam from the GlobCover project

Description

Generates a provinces map of Vietnam for a given date with proportions of each land cover category as attributes.

Usage

getlandcover(date = "2015-01-01", merge_hanoi = FALSE)

Arguments

date	either text in the "YYYY-MM-DD" format (for example "2015-01-17" for the 17th of January 2017), or a numeric format of the year (for example 2015). By default "2015-01-01".
merge_hanoi	boolean indicating whether the provinces of Ha Noi and Ha Son Binh (or Ha Noi and Ha Tay) should be merged.

Value

An object of class "SpatialPolygonsDataFrame".

Note

argument merge_hanoi makes a difference only for date before 2008-01-01.

Author(s)

Marc Choisy

Examples

# with the province definition of 2015:
prov15_landcover <- getlandcover()

# with the province definition of 1980 with the provinces of Ha Noi and Ha
# Son Binh merged:
prov80_landcover <- getlandcover(1980, TRUE)

choisy/globcoverVN documentation built on Aug. 22, 2019, 12:42 a.m.