ne_10m_glaciated_areas {IceSat2R}

Natural Earth 10m Glaciated Areas (1:10 million scale)

Description

Polygons derived from DCW (Digital Chart of the World), except for Antarctica derived from MOA. Includes name attributes for major polar glaciers. Filtering has aggregated some minor glaciers and eliminated others from the original DCW data.

Usage

data(ne_10m_glaciated_areas)

Format

An object of class sf (inherits from data.frame) with 68 rows and 6 columns.

Details

Issues: Needs scale rank attributes

Note: The original DCW data was collected decades ago. Since then many mountain glaciers have either disappeared or diminished in size. This data theme is deliberately called "glaciated areas" instead of "glaciers" to reflect the changeable character of glacier extents.

References

https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-physical-vectors/10m-glaciated-areas/

Examples

require(IceSat2R)
require(sf)

data(ne_10m_glaciated_areas)