computeFeldRegion {BIOMASS}

Retrieving Feldpausch regions

Description

Extract the Feldpausch et al. (2012)'s regions using local coordinates.

Usage

computeFeldRegion(coord, level = c("region"))

Arguments

coord

Coordinates of the site(s), a matrix/dataframe with two columns (e.g. cbind(longitude, latitude)) (see examples).

level

a string or a vector of string, the length must match the number of rows of the parameter coord. This parameter gives the scale at which Feldpausch regions should be assigned. There are tree levels:

• region: Models assign at sub-continent levels, value by default

• continent: Models assign at the Africa, South America, Asia and Australia levels

• world: Pantropical model

Value

The function returns a vector with the Feldpausch et al. (2012)'s regions that can be incorporated in the retrieveH function.

Author(s)

Arthur PERE

References

Feldpausch, T.R., et al. (2012). Tree height integrated into pantropical forest biomass estimates. Biogeosciences, 9, 3381–3403.

Examples

#' # One study site
lat <- 4.08
long <- -52.68
coord <- cbind(long, lat)

FeldRegion <- computeFeldRegion(coord)


# Several study sites (here three sites)
long <- c(-52.68, -51.12, -53.11)
lat <- c(4.08, 3.98, 4.12)
coord <- cbind(long, lat)

FeldRegion <- computeFeldRegion(coord)