rGEDI (version 0.6.0)

clipLevel2BPAVDProfileGeometry: Clip GEDI Plant Area Volume Density profile by geometry

Description

This function clips GEDI level2B derived Plant Area Index profile within a given geometry

Usage

clipLevel2BPAVDProfileGeometry(level2BPAVDProfile, polygon, split_by = NULL)

Value

Returns an S4 object of class data.table::data.table

containing the Plant Area Volume Density profile data.

Arguments

level2BPAVDProfile

A GEDI Level2B object (output of getLevel2BPAIProfile() function). An S4 object of class "gedi.level2b".

polygon

Polygon. An object of class sf::sf, which can be loaded as an ESRI shapefile using sf::st_read function in the sf package.

split_by

Polygon id. If defined, GEDI data will be clipped by each polygon using the attribute specified by split_by from the attribute table.

See Also

https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/data/catalog/lpcloud-gedi02-b-002

Examples

# Specifying the path to GEDI level2B data (zip file)
outdir <- tempdir()
level2B_fp_zip <- system.file("extdata",
  "GEDI02_B_2019108080338_O01964_T05337_02_001_01_sub.zip",
  package = "rGEDI"
)

# Unzipping GEDI level2A data
level2Bpath <- unzip(level2B_fp_zip, exdir = outdir)

# Reading GEDI level2B data (h5 file)
level2b <- readLevel2B(level2Bpath = level2Bpath)

# Extracting GEDI Plant Area Volume Density profile
level2BPAVDProfile <- getLevel2BPAVDProfile(level2b)

# Specifying the path to shapefile
polygon_filepath <- system.file("extdata", "stands_cerrado.shp", package = "rGEDI")

# Reading shapefile as sf object
library(sf)
polygon <- sf::st_read(polygon_filepath)

# Clipping GEDI Plant Area Volume Density profile by geometry
level2BPAVDProfile_clip <- clipLevel2BPAVDProfileGeometry(
  level2BPAVDProfile,
  polygon,
  split_by = "id"
)

close(level2b)