estimate_fuel_loads: Estimate fuel loads

In danfosterfire/Rfuels: Estimate Fuel Loads from Brown's Transects for Sierra Nevada Conifers

Description

A top-level wrapper function to estimate fuel loads from Brown's transect data and a treelist describing the local overstory for each observation. For details, see the vignette or the README.

Usage

estimate_fuel_loads(fuels_data, trees_data,
  results_type = "results_only")

Arguments

fuels_data	The dataframe with the Brown's transect observations describing the fuels. See the vignette and/or README for more info.
trees_data	The dataframe with the observations of individual trees (aka the treelist). See the vignette and/or README for more info.
results_type	Either 'full', 'results_only', or 'fuels_only'. Sets the verbosity of the returned results dataframe. 'full' includes observation ID information, all directly observed values, intermediate calculations, overstory species composition, and the fuel load estimates. 'results_only' returns the observation ID information, the overstory species composition, and the fuel load estimates. 'fuels_only' returns the observation ID information and the fuel load estimates.

Value

A tidy data frame, with a row for each observation (where an observation is a Brown's transect on a specific date), and columns for the plot location (plot_id), the inventory date (inv_date), the transect azimuth (azimuth), and the fuel load estimated for various subcategories of surface and ground fuels (litter, duff, 1-hour, 10-hour, 100-hour, and 1000-hour fuels). Users may opt to include columns for the directly observed measurements, intermediate values, and the overstory species composition using the parameter 'results_type'.

danfosterfire/Rfuels documentation built on May 28, 2019, 11:04 p.m.