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landuse

Land use data


Description

Download land use / land cover data. Currently only QED cropland for Africa, resampled to 30-seconds resolution.

Usage

cropland_africa(path)

Arguments

path

character. Path name where the data should be downloaded to

Value

SpatRaster

See Also

This geospatial asset is a probability map of cropland presence across Sub-Saharan Africa. The AI strategy here used a neural network that was trained on an initial 1-million point Geosurvey (https://geosurvey.qed.ai) conducted in 2015.

The map was generated by the Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS) project, and is shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License.

Examples

ph <- cropland_africa(path=tempdir())

geodata

Download Geographic Data

v0.2-3
GPL (>= 3)
Authors
Robert J. Hijmans [cre, aut], Aniruddha Ghosh [ctb], Alex Mandel [ctb]
Initial release
2021-05-26

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