parse_forestable {medfateland}

Parse forestable

Description

Transforms a data frame or sf object issued from package forestables into an sf object for simulations with medfateland.

Usage

parse_forestable(
  x,
  keepSpeciesCodes = TRUE,
  filterDeadTrees = TRUE,
  filterCutTrees = TRUE,
  minimumTreeDBH = 0.1,
  progress = FALSE
)

Arguments

x

A data frame or sf object issued from package forestables.

keepSpeciesCodes

Keeps forest inventory species codes.

filterDeadTrees

If TRUE, filters out dead trees (Spanish forest inventory IFN3 or IFN4).

filterCutTrees

If TRUE, filters out cut trees (Spanish forest inventory IFN3 or IFN4).

minimumTreeDBH

Minimum DBH for keeping a tree record.

progress

A logical flag to include a progress bar while processing the data.

Details

This function retrieves the following information from the forestables object:

• Id unique code, survey year, non-unique plot code and country.

• Plot location. Output geometry is always points in WGS 84. Note that exact coordinates are not normally given in forest inventory data.

• Elevation, slope and aspect, whenever available

• Tree and understory data. The function will create a column forest with this information.

Value

An sf object including a 'forest' column