geobr (version 1.5)

read_biomes: Download official data of Brazilian biomes as an sf object.

Description

This data set includes polygons of all biomes present in Brazilian territory and coastal area. The latest data set dates to 2019 and it is available at scale 1:250.000. The 2004 data set is at the scale 1:5.000.000. The original data comes from IBGE. More information at https://www.ibge.gov.br/apps/biomas/

Usage

read_biomes(year = 2019, simplified = TRUE, showProgress = TRUE)

Arguments

year

A date number in YYYY format (defaults to 2019)

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 st_simplifysf preserving topology with a dTolerance of 100.

showProgress

Logical. Defaults to (TRUE) display progress bar

See Also

Other general area functions: read_amazon(), read_census_tract(), read_conservation_units(), read_country(), read_health_region(), read_immediate_region(), read_intermediate_region(), read_meso_region(), read_micro_region(), read_municipality(), read_neighborhood(), read_region(), read_semiarid(), read_state(), read_statistical_grid(), read_weighting_area()

Examples

# NOT RUN {
library(geobr)

# Read biomes
  b <- read_biomes(year=2019)

# }
# NOT RUN {
# }