rasterbc: Access Forest Ecology Layers for British Columbia in 2001-2018

R-based access to a large set of data variables relevant to forest ecology in British Columbia (BC), Canada. Layers are in raster format at 100m resolution in the BC Albers projection, hosted at the Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR) with <doi:10.20383/101.0283>. The collection includes: elevation; biogeoclimatic zone; wildfire; cutblocks; forest attributes from Hansen et al. (2013) <doi:10.1139/cjfr-2013-0401> and Beaudoin et al. (2017) <doi:10.1139/cjfr-2017-0184>; and rasterized Forest Insect and Disease Survey (FIDS) maps for a number of insect pest species, all covering the period 2001-2018. Users supply a polygon or point location in the province of BC, and 'rasterbc' will download the overlapping raster tiles hosted at FRDR, merging them as needed and returning the result in R as a 'SpatRaster' object. Metadata associated with these layers, and code for downloading them from their original sources can be found in the 'github' repository <https://github.com/deankoch/rasterbc_src>.

Version: 1.0.2
Depends: R (≥ 2.10)
Imports: sf, methods, terra
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, bcmaps, units
Published: 2023-11-09
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.rasterbc
Author: Dean Koch ORCID iD [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Dean Koch <dkoch at ualberta.ca>
BugReports: https://github.com/deankoch/rasterbc/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/deankoch/rasterbc, https://github.com/deankoch/rasterbc_src
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README NEWS
CRAN checks: rasterbc results

Documentation:

Reference manual: rasterbc.pdf
Vignettes: Introduction to the rasterbc package

Downloads:

Package source: rasterbc_1.0.2.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: rasterbc_1.0.2.zip, r-release: rasterbc_1.0.2.zip, r-oldrel: rasterbc_1.0.2.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): rasterbc_1.0.2.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): rasterbc_1.0.2.tgz, r-release (x86_64): rasterbc_1.0.2.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): rasterbc_1.0.2.tgz
Old sources: rasterbc archive

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