chainSawIZ-class: Class "chainSawIZ"

In sampSurf: Sampling Surface Simulation for Areal Sampling Methods

Description

This class holds the inclusion zone definition for the ‘chainsaw’ method (Gove and Van Deusen, 2011) for sampling down coarse woody debris.

Objects from the Class

Objects can be created by calls of the form new("chainSawIZ", ...). However, this is not recommended because the objects are fairly complex. Instead, one can use the object constructor chainSawIZ to create new objects.

Slots

Most of the slots are described in the superclasses (see below), please see their help pages for more information. This class adds only three slots to the "downLogIZ" class specification.

circularPlot:

Object of class "circularPlot": Object of class "circularPlot": An object from the "ArealSampling" subclass "circularPlot".

sliver:

Object of class "SpatialPolygons": A "SpatialPolygons" object representing the intersection (sliver) between the circular plot and the log.

bolt:

Object of class "list": A list defining the sQuoteminimal bounding bolt within the log that fully encompases the sliver. The list is described in The InclusionZone Class vignette.

Extends

Class "downLogIZ", directly.
Class "InclusionZone", by class "downLogIZ", distance 2.

Methods

izGrid

signature(izObject = "chainSawIZ", tract = "Tract"): “InclusionZoneGrid” generic constructor

perimeter

signature(object = "chainSawIZ"): Return the object perimeter

plot

signature(x = "chainSawIZ", y = "missing"): Plot the object

summary

signature(object = "chainSawIZ"): Summary of the object

Author(s)

Jeffrey H. Gove

References

Gove, J. H. and Van Deusen, P. C. 2011. On fixed-area plot sampling for downed coarse woody debris. Forestry. Forestry 84:109–117.

See Also

standUpIZ, sausageIZ fullChainSawIZ and the downLogIZs container class.

Examples

showClass("chainSawIZ")

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