Create the rawBiomassMap raster containing biomass estimates for pixelCohortData. Wrapper on reproducible::prepInputs() that will rasterize fire polygons.

prepRawBiomassMap(studyAreaName, cacheTags, ...)

Arguments

studyAreaName

character string giving the study area name.

cacheTags

a character vector of strings to pass to Cache(userTags)

...

arguments passed to reproducible::prepInputs() and reproducible::Cache(). If the following arguments are not provided, the following values will be used:

  • url: by default, the 2001 kNN stand biomass map is downloaded from the NRCan National Forest Inventory

  • useSAcrs and projectTo: FALSE and NA

  • method: "bilinear"

  • datatype: "INT2U"

  • filename2: suffix("rawBiomassMap.tif", paste0("_", studyAreaName))

  • overwrite: TRUE

  • userTags: c(cacheTags, "rawBiomassMap")

  • omitArgs: c("destinationPath", "targetFile", "userTags", "stable")

Value

a rawBiomassMap raster