readEsaCci: Reads ESA CCI Land Cover Maps

In pik-piam/geodata: Landuse geodata library

Description

This function reads ESA Climate Change Initiative Land Cover Maps for different years. It is also possible to select a certain type of land-cover that is then extracted and transferred to percentage values based on a substitution list.

Usage

readEsaCci(years=NULL, types=NULL, rCache=T, wCache=T)

Arguments

years	Specify the years that you want the data for. Currently available: 2000 (1998-2002), 2005 (2003-2007), 2010 (2008-2012)
types	If specified a certain land-cover type is extracted and transferred to percentage values in original resolution. Available types see: geodata$class2area$EsaCci, e.g. "tree.avg", "water", ...
rCache	TRUE: read the data from cache if available
wCache	write the data to cache if it has been newly created

Value

If one or more types are specified a list of raster stacks (of rasters of different years) with different types. Otherwise a raster stack

Author(s)

Ulrich Kreidenweis

Examples

## Not run: readEsaCci()

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