textureSuit {soilassessment}

A function for assessing texture suitability requirements for certain crops and trees

Description

This function determines the suitability classes for texture requirements of selected agricultural crops and forest trees

Usage

textureSuit(value, crop)

Arguments

value

Input textural class code.

crop

The crop of interest for which texture suitability class is sought.

Details

The input value can be map or just a numerical entry of textural class code. The textural class code is obtained using classCode("texture")

Value

The output is texture 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 texture 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

tempSuit, PHSuit, rainSuit

Examples

library(sp)
textureSuit(4,"mango")
texture=suitabinput["texture"]
texture$mango=textureSuit(texture$texture,"mango")
summary(texture$mango)
spplot(texture["mango"])