landCoverSantiago {datana}R Documentation

Land-cover, environmental and sociodemographic data for the 34 municipalities composing the Greater Santiago area, Santiago, Chile.

Description

dataset contains 476 observations, 34 categorical and 442 numerical. Land-cover data was generated through remote sensing classification techniques using Sentinel-2 satellite images from year 2016. Temperatures were obtained from TIRS band 10 of Landsat 8 satellites images. Particulate matter concentrations were estimated using spatial modelling techniques from 10 pollution stations distributed in the city. Altitude was generated from a Digital Elevation Model. Population and poverty were gathered from Casen 2017 survey.

Usage

data(landCoverSantiago)

Format

The data frame contains four variables as follows:

Comuna

Name of Municipality

p.Construido

Percentage of surface covered by built-up area

p.Vegetacion

Percentage of surface covered by vegetation

p.Desnudo

Percentage of surface covered by bare soil

p.Pasto

Percentage of surface covered by deciduous vegetation

p.Deciduo

Percentage of surface covered by evergreen vegetation

p.Siempreverde

Percentage of surface covered by evergreen vegetation

Temp Invierno

Land surface temperature in celsius degrees at 2pm on a winter 0% cloud day

Temp Verano

Land surface temperature in celsius degrees at 2pm on a summer 0% cloud day

PM10 Invierno

Average particulate matter 10 micron during winter months

PM10 Verano

Average particulate matter 10 micron during summer months

p.pobreza 2017

Percentage of people under poverty line year 2017

Altitud promedio

Average altitude of municipal area

Poblacion

Total population of municipality

Source

Data were provided by Dr Ignacio Fernandez at the Universidad Mayor (Santiago, Chile).

References

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Examples

data(landCoverSantiago)    
head(landCoverSantiago) 

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