fd_forest_france {forestdata}R Documentation

BD Forêt

Description

Download the BD Forêt data for a French Department. This function downloads the polygons of forest vegetation in France.

Usage

fd_forest_france(department, path_metadata = NULL, version = 2, quiet = FALSE)

Arguments

department

a character string of length 1 with the name of a French department (see examples)

path_metadata

a character string of length 1 with the path to store the metadata of the BD Forêt database. The default path_metadata = NULL does not download the metadata

version

the version number of the BD Forêt data. Either 1 or 2 (see details)

quiet

if TRUE, suppress any message or progress bar

Details

The BD Forêt is a database where the forest cover of France is stored by department, with the spatial distribution of tree species in the country.

The BD Forêt version 1 was developed by photointerpretation of infrared color aerial images with a minimum mapped area of 2.25 hectares. The year of reference for each department varies between 1987 and 2002. The version 1 contains the following variables:

The BD Forêt version 2 was developed between 2007 and 2018 by photointerpretation of color infrared images from the BD ORTHO. It assigns a vegetation formation type to each mapped area larger than 5,000m^2. This version contains the variables:

For more information, download the metadata using the argument path_metadata (information in French).

Value

A sf object with POLYGON geometry

References

https://geoservices.ign.fr/bdforet

See Also

metadata_forestdata for a list of possible Department names

Examples


# Download BD Foret V2 for the department of Ardèche
ardeche_bdforet1_sf <- fd_forest_france(department = "Ardeche", version = 1)


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