| ESPSuit {soilassessment} | R Documentation |
A function for assessing Exchangeable Sodium Percent (ESP) suitability requirements for certain crops and trees
Description
This function determines the suitability classes for ESP requirements of selected agricultural crops and forest trees
Usage
ESPSuit(value, crop)
Arguments
value |
Input Exchangeable Sodium Percent (ESP) |
crop |
crop of interest for which ESP suitability class is sought |
Details
The input value can be map or just a numerical value of Exchangeable Sodium Percent (ESP)
Value
The output is ESP suitability class for the crop. The output is integer value for suitability class: 1- highly suitable; 2 - moderately suitable; 3 - marginally suitable; 4 - currently not suitable; 5 - not suitable
Note
If the input value is raster map, then the output will also be a raster map of ESP suitability for the crop of interest
Author(s)
Christian Thine Omuto
References
Sys, C., Van Ranst, E., Debaveye, J. and Beerneaert, F.1993. Land evaluation: Part III: Crop requirements. Development Cooperation, Belgium.
Naidu, L.G.K., Ramamurthy, V., Challa O., Hegde, R. and Krishnan, P. 2006. Manual, Soil-site Suitability Criteria for Major Crops, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, ICAR, Nagpur, India
FAO Crop Suitability Requirements: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/home
See Also
suitability, rainSuit, fertilitySuit
Examples
ESPSuit(8.6,"broccoli")