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read_conservation_units

Download spatial data of Brazilian environmental conservation units


Description

This data set covers the whole of Brazil and it includes the polygons of all conservation units present in Brazilian territory. The last update of the data was 09-2019. The original data comes from MMA and can be found at "http://mapas.mma.gov.br/i3geo/datadownload.htm".

Usage

read_conservation_units(date = 201909, simplified = TRUE, showProgress = TRUE)

Arguments

date

A date number in YYYYMM format. Defaults to 201909

simplified

Logic FALSE or TRUE, indicating whether the function returns the data set with original' resolution or a data set with 'simplified' borders. Defaults to TRUE. For spatial analysis and statistics users should set simplified = FALSE. Borders have been simplified by removing vertices of borders using sf::st_simplify() preserving topology with a dTolerance of 100.

showProgress

Logical. Defaults to TRUE display progress bar

Value

An "sf" "data.frame" object

See Also

Examples

## Not run:  if (interactive()) {
# Read conservation_units
b <- read_conservation_units(date = 201909)
}
## End(Not run)

geobr

Download Official Spatial Data Sets of Brazil

v1.6.1
MIT + file LICENSE
Authors
Rafael H. M. Pereira [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2125-7465>), Caio Nogueira Goncalves [aut], Paulo Henrique Fernandes de Araujo [ctb], Guilherme Duarte Carvalho [ctb], Rodrigo Almeida de Arruda [ctb], Igor Nascimento [ctb], Barbara Santiago Pedreira da Costa [ctb], Welligtton Silva Cavedo [ctb], Pedro R. Andrade [ctb], Alan da Silva [ctb], Carlos Kauê Vieira Braga [ctb], Carl Schmertmann [ctb], Alessandro Samuel-Rosa [ctb], Daniel Ferreira [ctb], Ipea - Institue for Applied Economic Research [cph, fnd]
Initial release
2021-04-15

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