This function retrieves the Local Climate Zone (LCZ) global mapping dataset It allows you to obtain the LCZ map for a specific area of interest, which can be a city, state, region, or custom-defined shape.
Arguments
- city
A character string specifying the name of your target area based on the OpenStreetMap project.
- roi
Optionally, you can provide a Region of Interest (ROI) in ESRI shapefile format to clip the LCZ map to a custom area.
- isave_map
Logical. Set to TRUE if you wish to save the resulting clipped map as a raster TIFF file on your local machine.
- isave_global
Logical. Set to TRUE if you wish to save the global LCZ map as a raster TIFF file on your local machine.
References
Demuzere, M., Kittner, J., Martilli, A., Mills, G., Moede, C., Stewart, I. D., van Vliet, J., and Bechtel, B. (2022). A global map of Local Climate Zones to support earth system modelling and urban scale environmental science, Earth Syst. Sci. Data 14(8) 3835-3873. DOI:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-3835-2022 Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6364594 Stewart ID, Oke TR. (2012). Local Climate Zones for Urban Temperature Studies. Bull Am Meteorol Soc. 93(12):1879-1900. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00019.1
Examples
if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Load the LCZ map for a city
my_lcz_city <- lcz_get_map(city = "your city")
# Get LCZ map for a custom region of interest
custom_roi <- sf::st_read("custom_roi.shp")
roi_lcz <- lcz_get_map(roi = custom_roi, isave_map = TRUE)
# Retrieve the LCZ map for a country
my_lcz_country <- lcz_get_map(city = "Brazil")
} # }