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Global Mangrove Extent Polygon
Description
This resource is part of the publication by Bunting et al. (2018) "The Global Mangrove Watch—A New 2010 Global Baseline of Mangrove Extent". The polygons represent the mangrove, which is tropical coastal vegetation and considered the most significant part of the marine ecosystem. This resource is available for the selected years in the period 1996- 2020 from Global Mangrove Watch (GMW), providing geospatial information about global mangrove extent.
Usage
get_gmw(years = c(1996, 2007:2010, 2015:2020))
Arguments
years |
A numeric vector of the years for which to make GMW available. |
Value
A function that returns an sf footprint object.
Source
https://data.unep-wcmc.org/datasets/45
References
Bunting P., Rosenqvist A., Lucas R., Rebelo L-M., Hilarides L., Thomas N., Hardy A., Itoh T., Shimada M. and Finlayson C.M. (2018). The Global Mangrove Watch – a New 2010 Global Baseline of Mangrove Extent. Remote Sensing 10(10): 1669. doi:10.3390/rs10101669.