| slopeSuit {soilassessment} | R Documentation |
A function for assessing slope suitability requirements for certain crops and trees
Description
This function determines the suitability classes for slope requirements of selected agricultural crops and forest trees
Usage
slopeSuit(value, crop)
Arguments
value |
Input land slope in degrees. |
crop |
The crop of interest for which slope suitability class is sought. |
Details
The input value can be map or just a numerical entry of slope in degrees
Value
The output is slope suitability class for the crop. The output is an integer value for suitability class: 1- highly suitable; 2 - moderately suitable; 3 - marginally suitable; 4 - currently not suitable; 5 - not suitable
Note
The input slope value must be in degrees
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
LGPSuit, tempSuit, suitability
Examples
slopeSuit(23.4,"carrot")
library(sp)
slopeSuit(23.4,"carrot")
slope=suitabinput["slope"]
slope$tea=slopeSuit(slope$slope,"tea")
slope$carrot=slopeSuit(slope$slope,"carrot")
summary(slope$carrot)
spplot(slope["carrot"])