| stoneSuit {soilassessment} | R Documentation |
A function for assessing stoniness suitability requirements for certain crops and trees
Description
This function determines the suitability classes for stoniness requirements of selected agricultural crops and forest trees
Usage
stoneSuit(value, crop)
Arguments
value |
Input level of stoniness in percent. |
crop |
The crop of interest for which stoniness suitability class is sought. |
Details
The input value can be map or just a numerical entry of stoniness in percent
Value
The output is stoniness 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
Output raster map of stoniness for the crop of interest is given if the input value is raster map
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
tempSuit, PHSuit, rainSuit
Examples
stoneSuit(15,"grape")