BA: Basal Area Formula

In ryanmismith/inventoryfunctions: Forestry Inventory Functions

Basal Area Formula

Description

This function calculates the basal area of a tree in square meters. The basal area is the cross sectional area of the tree.

Inputs and return values are metric.

Usage

BA(DBH)

Arguments

DBH	Diameter at breast height in cm.

Value

A numeric vector with the basal area of n trees.

References

Kershaw, J. A., Ducey, M. J., Beers, T. W., & Husch, B. (2017). Forest mensuration (Fifth edition). Wiley/Blackwell.

See Also

Other Basal Area Functions: BA.Larger.Trees(), BAPH()

Examples

BA(34)

## Not run: 
# Tibble %>% mutate(BA = BA("DBH Vector"))

## End(Not run)

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