elevation: Calculate elevation statistics

elevationR Documentation

Calculate elevation statistics

Description

This function allows to calculate elevation statistics for polygons. For each polygon, the desired statistic(s) are returned.

Usage

calc_elevation(engine = "extract", stats = "mean")

Arguments

engine

The preferred processing functions from either one of "zonal", "extract" or "exactextract" as character.

stats

Function to be applied to compute statistics for polygons either one or multiple inputs as character "mean", "median" or "sd".

Details

The required resources for this indicator are:

  • nasa_srtm

Value

A function that returns an indicator tibble with specified elevation statistics as variable and corresponding values (in meters) as value.

Examples


## Not run: 
library(sf)
library(mapme.biodiversity)

outdir <- file.path(tempdir(), "mapme-data")
dir.create(outdir, showWarnings = FALSE)

mapme_options(
  outdir = outdir,
  verbose = FALSE
)

aoi <- system.file("extdata", "sierra_de_neiba_478140_2.gpkg",
  package = "mapme.biodiversity"
) %>%
  read_sf() %>%
  get_resources(get_nasa_srtm()) %>%
  calc_indicators(
    calc_elevation(engine = "extract", stats = c("mean", "median", "sd", "var"))
  ) %>%
  portfolio_long()

aoi

## End(Not run)

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