Create Categorical Land Cover Raster from Copernicus ESA WorldCover Data

This function takes a `SpatRaster` object containing Copernicus ESA WorldCover land cover data, reclassifies it into categorical land cover classes based on predefined schemes, and returns the resulting categorical raster.

Usage

create_cat_esa_10m(land_cover)

Arguments

land_cover

A `SpatRaster` object representing the input land cover raster from Copernicus ESA WorldCover. This raster should contain land cover classes as defined by the Copernicus program.

Value

A `SpatRaster` object containing the reclassified categorical land cover raster. Each pixel will have a category corresponding to a defined land cover type.

Details

The function uses a predefined classification scheme for ESA WorldCover data, assigning numeric or categorical values to represent different land cover types. The resulting raster can be used for further spatial analysis or landscape ecology studies.

References

Zanaga, D., Van De Kerchove, R., De Keersmaecker, W., et al. (2021). ESA WorldCover 10 m 2020 v100. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5571936 Zanaga, D., Van De Kerchove, R., Daems, D., et al. (2022). ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7254221 ESA WorldCover project 2020 and 2021. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data processed by ESA WorldCover consortium. ESA WorldCover

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Assuming 'land_cover_raster' is a SpatRaster object from ESA WorldCover
cat_raster <- create_cat_esa_10m(land_cover_raster)
} # }