Process land cover data — process

The process_nlcd() function imports and cleans raw land cover data, returning a single SpatRaster object.

Reads NLCD file of selected year.

Usage

process_nlcd(path = NULL, year = 2021, extent = NULL, ...)

Arguments

path: character giving nlcd data path
year: numeric giving the year of NLCD data used
extent: numeric(4) or SpatExtent giving the extent of the raster if NULL (default), the entire raster is loaded
...: Placeholders.

Value

a SpatRaster object

Author

Eva Marques, Insang Song

Examples

## NOTE: Example is wrapped in `\dontrun{}` as function requires a large
##       amount of data which is not included in the package.
if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
nlcd <- process_nlcd(
  path = "./data/",
  year = 2021
)
} # }