prepPA: Prepare protected area polygons

In darrennorris/cmartr: Functions for processing and analysing river turtle management

Description

Generates files for subsequent use in "PrepPAcover.R".

Usage

prepPA(PAin = NA)

Arguments

PAin	Input file with protected area polygons

Details

Takes georeferenced polygons of protected areas from the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA, downloaded from https://protectedplanet.net/ on 6 December 2017). Includes subset of terrestrial South American protected areas that are in the raster grid. I.e. touching, intersecting, within bounding box created from 150 km buffer around the catchments. Cleans and identifies 3 classes: Indigenous lands, Strict Protection and Use. Definitions from https://www.iucn.org/theme/protected-areas/about/protected-area-categories .

Value

Files for subsequent use.

Examples

## Not run: 
# Load shapefiles needed
# These large files are not available via github package. 
# Download "shapes.zip" from :
# https://drive.google.com/open?id=1QQArA7pPLemUVQTKx7PxigsQXKpOG0YQ
# For the code below to work, 
# extract files in "shapes.zip" to cmartr/inst/shape .
PA <- system.file("shape/wdpaselect.shp", package="cmartr")
sf.pa <- cmartr::prepPA(PAin = PA)

## End(Not run)

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