rasterbc

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Access Forest Ecology Layers for British Columbia in 2001-2018

Dean Koch

Last update: 9 November 2023

Copyright license: MIT license, File License

Software version identifier: 1.0.1, 1.0.0, 1.0.2

Description

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>.

Cites work

• Unnamed Publication
• Mapping attributes of Canada’s forests at moderate resolution through kNN and MODIS imagery
• Tracking forest attributes across Canada between 2001 and 2011 using a k nearest neighbors mapping approach applied to MODIS imagery

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