Vegetation: Vegetation Polygons

In essatech/MNAI.CPBT: Municipal Natural Assets Initiative - Coastal Protection Benefit Toolbox

Vegetation Polygons

Description

Vegetation polygons for submerged vegetation. Note that these vegetation polygons were prepared for demonstration purposes only and do not reflect actual eelgrass distributions.

Usage

data(Vegetation)

Format

A simple feature collection of eelgrass polygons.

hc

Blade height in meters

N

Shoot density as number of shoots per meter squared.

d

Blade width in meters.

Type

Either 'Eelgrass', 'Kelp' or 'Marsh'.

Cd

Drag coefficent as per Guannel et al 2015.

References

Guannel et al (2015). Integrated modeling framework to quantify the coastal protection services supplied by vegetation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 120(1), 324-345. (Article DOI)

Examples

require(sf)
data(Vegetation)
head(Vegetation)
# Plot the eelgrass patch height
plot(Vegetation["hc"])

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