Download LCZ map from the European — lcz_get_map

This function retrieves the Local Climate Zone (LCZ) European mapping dataset created by Demuzere et al. (2019) and available at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214474. 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.

Usage

lcz_get_map_euro(
  city = NULL,
  roi = NULL,
  isave_map = FALSE,
  isave_euro = FALSE
)

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_euro: Logical. Set to TRUE if you wish to save the European LCZ map as a raster TIFF file on your local machine.

Value

A Terra raster TIFF file containing LCZ classes for the specified area of interest.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Example 1: Load the LCZ map for a city
my_lcz_city <- lcz_get_map_euro(city = "Berlin")

# Example 2: Get LCZ map for a custom region of interest
custom_roi <- sf::st_read("custom_roi.shp")
roi_lcz <- lcz_get_map_euro(roi = custom_roi)
} # }