get_nldi_characteristics {nhdplusTools}

Get Catchment Characteristics

Description

Retrieves catchment characteristics from the Network Linked Data Index. Metadata for these characteristics can be found using 'discover_nldi_characteristics()'.

Usage

get_nldi_characteristics(nldi_feature, type = "local")

Arguments

nldi_feature

list with names 'featureSource' and 'featureID' where 'featureSource' is derived from the "source" column of the response of get_nldi_sources and the 'featureID' is a known identifier from the specified 'featureSource'.

type

character "all", "local", "total", or "divergence_routed".

Value

data.frame containing requested characteristics

Examples

chars <- get_nldi_characteristics(list(featureSource = "nwissite", featureID = "USGS-05429700"))
names(chars)
head(chars$local, 10)