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Extract soil order from the 'Digital Atlas of Australian Soils' (DAAS) using Australian GPS coordinates

Source: R/extract_daas_soil_order.R
extract_daas_soil_order.Rd

[Superseded]

This function has been superseded by extract_asc(), which provides access to a more accurate dataset based on the Australian Soil Classification (ASC).

Extracts the major soil order at the GPS points provided assuming that they are land-based coordinates.

Usage

extract_daas_soil_order(xy, locations = NULL, lonlat = NULL)

Source

https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/5ccb44bf-93f2-4f94-8ae2-4c3f699ea4e7/resource/56ba5f25-2324-43b5-8df8-b9c69ae2ea0b/download/6f804e8b-2de9-4c88-adfa-918ec327c32f.zip

Arguments

xy

A list or data.frame object with names containing pairings of longitude and latitude values expressed as decimal degree values in that order. A data.frame may also be an sf points object. See Details for more.

locations

The column in which the location names are located as an Integer value. Defaults to 1.

lonlat

A vector of integer values indicating the column index in which the longitude and latitude values are contained. Defaults to 2:3.

Value

A data.table::data.table() with the provided GPS coordinates and the respective Digital Atlas of Australian Soils (DAAS soil order), "Spatial Data Conversion of the Atlas of Australian Soils to the Australian Soil Classification v01".

xy

xy as a List Object

If xy is a list object, each individual vector's items should be named “x” (longitude) and “y” (latitude), respectively. The list item names should be descriptive of the individual vectors and will be included in a “location” column of the output.

xy as a Data Frame Object

If xy is a data.frame, it should be a three column object with the first column being the location name, the second longitude and the third, latitude both as decimal degrees in numeric format.

xy as an sf Object

If xy is an sf object, it should only be point geometry and have a coordinate reference system. The points are reprojected to the coordinate reference system of fifo's AEZ boundaries before the extraction. The x and y columns of every extract_*() function are returned in this same coordinate reference system. The location names are taken from the column given in locations, or from a column named “location” if there is one, otherwise the row numbers are used.

References

https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/2d0809ec-34c8-4e66-8cef-e3de2416c144

Examples

locs <- list(
  Merredin = c(x = 118.28, y = -31.48),
  Corrigin = c(x = 117.87, y = -32.33),
  Tamworth = c(x = 150.84, y = -31.07)
)

extract_daas_soil_order(xy = locs)
#>    location      x      y daas_soil_order
#>      <char>  <num>  <num>          <fctr>
#> 1: Corrigin 117.87 -32.33         Sodosol
#> 2: Merredin 118.28 -31.48         Sodosol
#> 3: Tamworth 150.84 -31.07        Dermosol