Find National Land Cover Products (NLCD)

Source: R/findNLCD.R

findNLCD returns Raster land cover data from the National Land Cover Dataset (NED) for an AOI. Data comes the the USA National Map and is avaialble for years 2001, 2006, 2011. In additon to landcover, users can get data reflecting impervious surface and conaopy cover.

findNLCD(AOI = NULL, year = 2011, type = "landcover")

Arguments

AOI

A Spatial* or simple features geometry, can be piped from getAOI
year

the year(s) to download. Options include 2001, 2006, 2011. Default = 2011
type

the type of data to downlaod. Options include landcover, canopy, and impervious. Default = landcover

Value

a list() of minimum length 2: AOI and NLCD

Examples

# NOT RUN {
 dt = getAOI(clip = list("Devil Tower")) %>% findNLDC(2006, 'landcover')
 dt = getAOI(clip = list("Devil Tower")) %>% findNLDC(2011, 'canopy')
 dt = getAOI(clip = list("Devil Tower")) %>% findNLDC(2011, 'impervious')
# }