spatialEco (version 0.1-4)

download.hansen: Download Hansen Forest 2000-2013 Change

Description

Download of Hansen Global Forest Change 2000-2013

Usage

download.hansen(tile, data.type = c("loss"), download.folder = getwd())

Arguments

tile

Granule index (See project URL for granule grid index)

data.type

Type of data to download options: 'treecover2000', 'loss', 'gain', 'lossyear', 'datamask', 'first', 'last'

download.folder

Destination folder

Value

• Downloaded Hansen forest loss tif files

References

Hansen, M. C., P. V. Potapov, R. Moore, M. Hancher, S. A. Turubanova, A. Tyukavina, D. Thau, S. V. Stehman, S. J. Goetz, T. R. Loveland, A. Kommareddy, A. Egorov, L. Chini, C. O. Justice, and J. R. G. Townshend. (2013) High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change. Science 342:850-53.

Examples

# Download single tile
 download.hansen(tile=c('00N', '130E'), data.type=c('loss', 'lossyear'), 
                 download.folder=getwd())

# Batch download of multiple tiles
tiles <- list(c('00N', '140E'), c('00N', '130E'))
  for( j in 1:length(tiles)){
    download.hansen(tile=tiles[[j]], data.type=c('loss'))  
 }