Wrapper to get FIA plots within the boundary population (area of interest) - Intersect with state boundary - Get FIA plots for intersected states, including tree, and spatial - Clip spatial coordinates and other tables to boundary (spClipPoint)

spGetPlots(
  bnd = NULL,
  bnd_dsn = NULL,
  bnd.filter = NULL,
  states = NULL,
  RS = NULL,
  pltids = NULL,
  xy_datsource = NULL,
  xy_dsn = NULL,
  xy = "PLOT",
  xy_opts = xy_options(),
  datsource = NULL,
  data_dsn = NULL,
  dbTabs = dbTables(),
  eval = "FIA",
  eval_opts = NULL,
  puniqueid = "CN",
  invtype = "ANNUAL",
  intensity1 = FALSE,
  clipxy = TRUE,
  pjoinid = NULL,
  showsteps = FALSE,
  returnxy = TRUE,
  returndata = TRUE,
  savedata = FALSE,
  savexy = FALSE,
  savebnd = FALSE,
  exportsp = FALSE,
  savedata_opts = NULL,
  spXYdat = NULL,
  gui = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

bnd

sf R object, Area of Interest (AOI) boundary. Can be a spatial sf object, full pathname to a shapefile, or name of a layer within a database.

bnd_dsn

String. Data source name (dsn; e.g., SQLite database or shapefile pathname) of bnd. The dsn varies by driver. See gdal OGR vector formats (https://www.gdal.org/ogr_formats.html). Optional if bnd is an R object.

bnd.filter

String. Filter to subset bnd spatial layer.

states

String. The name of state(s) for tables (e.g., "Vermont", "Utah").

RS

String. Name of FIA research station to restrict states to ('RMRS','SRS','NCRS','NERS','PNWRS'). If NULL, all research stations are included.

pltids

Data frame. Non-spatial plot identifiers within bnd).

xy_datsource

String. Source of XY data ("obj", "csv", "datamart", "sqlite"). If datsource=NULL, checks extension of xy_dsn or xy to identify datsource.

xy_dsn

String. Data source name (dsn; i.e., pathname or database name) of xy. The dsn varies by driver. See gdal OGR vector formats (https://www.gdal.org/ogr_formats.html). Optional if bnd_layer is an R object.

xy

sf R object or String. Table with xy coordinates. Can be a spatial polygon object, data frame, full pathname to a shapefile, or name of a layer within a database.

xy_opts

List of xy data options to specify if xy is NOT NULL. See xy_options (e.g., xy_opts = list(xvar='LON', yvar='LAT').

datsource

String. Source of FIA data ("obj", "csv", "datamart", "sqlite"). If datsource="sqlite", specify database name in data_dsn and layers in *_layer arguments. If datsource="datamart", files are downloaded and extracted from FIA DataMart (http://apps.fs.usda.gov/fia/datamart/datamart.html). See details for more information about plot coordinates. If datsource="csv", specify *.csv file names in *_layer arguments.

data_dsn

String. Name of database where *_layers reside.

dbTabs

List of database tables the user would like returned. See help(dbTables) for a list of options.

eval

String. Type of evaluation time frame for data extraction ('FIA', 'custom'). See eval_opts for more further options.

eval_opts

List of evaluation options for 'FIA' or 'custom' evaluations to determine the set of data returned. See help(eval_options) for a list of options.

puniqueid

String. Name of unique identifier of plt.

invtype

String. Type of FIA inventory to extract ('PERIODIC', 'ANNUAL'). Only one inventory type (PERIODIC/ANNUAL) at a time.

intensity1

Logical. If TRUE, includes only XY coordinates where INTENSITY = 1 (FIA base grid).

clipxy

Logical. If TRUE, clips xy data to bnd.

pjoinid

String. Variable in plt to join to XY data. Not necessary to be unique. If using most current XY coordinates, use identifier for a plot (e.g., PLOT_ID).

showsteps

Logical. If TRUE, display data in device window.

returnxy

Logical. If TRUE, save xy coordinates to outfolder.

returndata

Logical. If TRUE, returns data objects.

savedata

Logical. If TRUE, saves data to outfolder.

savexy

Logical. If TRUE, saves XY data to outfolder.

savebnd

Logical. If TRUE, and savedata=TRUE, saves bnd. If out_fmt='sqlite', saves to a SpatiaLite database.

exportsp

Logical. If TRUE, and savexy=TRUE, saves xy data as spatial data. If FALSE, saves xy data as table.

savedata_opts

List. See help(savedata_options()) for a list of options. Only used when savedata = TRUE.

spXYdat

R list object. Output from spGetXY().

gui

Logical. If TRUE, uses gui interface.

...

parameters passed to DBgetPlots().

Value

xypltx

sf object. Input xy data clipped to boundary.

bndx

sf object. Input bnd.

tabs

list object. List of input layers clipped to boundary (pltx,condx,etc.).

xy.uniqueid

String. Name of unique identifier of xy.

puniqueid

String. Name of unique identifier of plot in plt.

pjoinid

String. Name of unique identifier of plot in plt.

If savedata=TRUE, outdat data frame is saved to outfolder.

Details

datsource

Plots are extracted from 3 different data sources:
1) CSV - data have previously been extracted from the FIA database and stored as CSV files.
2) datamart - data are extracted from FIA's publically-available datamart.
3) sqlite - data have previously been extracted from the FIA database and stored within a SQLite database.

Selection parameters

FIA plots are selected based on the following parameters:

evalid - the FIA evaluation identifier
evalCur - the most current FIA evaluation in database
evalEndyr - the FIA evaluation ending in evalEndyr
evalType - the FIA evaluation type ('ALL', 'AREAVOL', 'GRM', 'P2VEG', 'DWM', 'INV', 'REGEN', 'CRWN')
measCur - the most current measurement of each plot in database
measEndyr - the most current measuremtn of each plot in database in or prior to measEndyr
Endyr.filter - a filter for bnd that specifies the boundary where measEndyr should be applied

Note

If savebnd=TRUE:
If out_fmt=c('csv','shp'), the st_write (sf) function is called. The ArcGIS driver truncates variable names to 10 characters or less. Variable names are changed before export using an internal function (trunc10shp). If Spatial object has more than 1 record, it will be returned but not exported.

If datsource="datmart", data are imported from FIA DataMart. The plot coordinates have been altered for privacy (See https://www.fia.fs.fed.us/tools-data/spatial/Policy/index.php for details). The zip files are extracted on-the-fly from the online website. Web server connections will affect download speeds.

Author

Tracey S. Frescino

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# Get polygon vector layer from FIESTA external data
WYbhfn <- system.file("extdata",
                      "sp_data/WYbighorn_adminbnd.shp",
                      package = "FIESTA")

# Extract data from FIA datamart for measurement years 2013 thru 2015
dat <- spGetPlots(bnd = WYbhfn,
                  datsource = "datamart",
                  eval = "custom",
                  eval_opts = list(measyrs = 2013:2015))
names(dat)
tabs <- dat$tabs
names(tabs)
head(tabs$plt)

table(tabs$plt$MEASYEAR)

# Extract data from FIA datamart for most current evaluation
datCur <- spGetPlots(bnd = WYbhfn,
                     datsource = "datamart",
                       eval = "FIA",
                     eval_opts = list(Cur = TRUE))
names(datCur)
tabsCur <- datCur$tabs
names(tabsCur)
head(tabsCur$plt)

table(tabsCur$plt$MEASYEAR)
}