soil_af_elements: Soil elements data for Africa

View source: R/soil_afsis.R

soil_af_elementsR Documentation

Soil elements data for Africa

Description

Connect to or download chemical soil element concentration (for the 0-30 cm topsoil) data for Africa. The spatial resolution is 30 arc-seconds (about 1 km2), aggregated from the original 250 m spatial resolution.

The data have an Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL)

For more information, see https://www.isric.org/projects/soil-property-maps-africa-250-m-resolution

Usage

soil_af_elements(var, path, ...)

Arguments

var

character. Variables name. One of: "Al", "B", "Ca", "Cu", "Fe", "K", "Mg", "Mn", "N", "Na", "P", "Ptot", "Zn". See Details

path

character. Path for storing the downloaded data. See geodata_path

...

additional arguments passed to download.file

Details

var description unit
Al Extractable aluminum mg kg-1 (ppm)
B Extractable boron mg kg-1 (ppm)
Ca Extractable calcium mg kg-1 (ppm)
Cu Extractable copper mg kg-1 (ppm)
Fe Extractable iron mg kg-1 (ppm)
K Extractable potassium mg kg-1 (ppm)
Mg Extractable magnesium mg kg-1 (ppm)
Mn Extractable manganese mg kg-1 (ppm)
N Organic nitrogen mg kg-1 (ppm)
Na Extractable sodium mg kg-1 (ppm)
P Extractable phosphorus mg (100 kg-1)
Ptot Total phosphorus mg (100 kg-1)
Zn Extractable zinc mg kg-1 (ppm)

Value

SpatRaster

References

Hengl T, Heuvelink GBM, Kempen B, Leenaars JGB, Walsh MG, Shepherd KD, et al. (2015) Mapping Soil Properties of Africa at 250 m Resolution: Random Forests Significantly Improve Current Predictions. PLoS ONE 10(6): e0125814. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0125814

See Also

soil_af, soil_af_isda, soil_world

Examples


# downloads a large file
fe <- soil_af_elements("Fe", path=tempdir(), quiet=TRUE)


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