landcover raster for Africa, categorical, 20km resolution

a raster object storing the majority landcover in 2019 for all 20km squares in Africa. Categorical, 20km resolution from MODIS. Cell values are numeric, landcover type names are stored in Raster Attribute Table (RAT) that can be accessed via levels(afrilandcover) See data-raw/afrilearndata-creation.R for how the data object is created.

afrilandcover

Format

Formal class 'raster';

Geographical coordinates WGS84 datum (CRS EPSG 4326)

Source

https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mcd12c1v006/

See also

Friedl, M., D. Sulla-Menashe. MCD12C1 MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 0.05Deg CMG V006. 2015, distributed by NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC, https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MCD12C1.006. Accessed 2021-06-07.#'

Examples

if (requireNamespace("raster", quietly = TRUE)) {
  library(raster)
  data(afrilandcover)
  # or
  filename <- system.file("extdata","afrilandcover.grd", package="afrilearndata", mustWork=TRUE)
  afrilandcover <- raster::raster(filename)

  plot(afrilandcover)
}
#> Warning: package 'raster' was built under R version 4.0.5
#> Loading required package: sp
#> Warning: package 'sp' was built under R version 4.0.5

# interactive plotting with mapview
if (requireNamespace("mapview", quietly = TRUE) &
    requireNamespace("rgdal", quietly = TRUE)) {
  library(mapview)
  mapview(afrilandcover,
          att="landcover",
          col.regions=levels(afrilandcover)[[1]]$colour)
}
#> Warning: Discarded ellps WGS 84 in CRS definition: +proj=merc +a=6378137 +b=6378137 +lat_ts=0 +lon_0=0 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +k=1 +units=m +nadgrids=@null +wktext +no_defs +type=crs
#> Warning: Discarded datum World Geodetic System 1984 in CRS definition
#> Warning: Discarded ellps WGS 84 in CRS definition: +proj=merc +a=6378137 +b=6378137 +lat_ts=0 +lon_0=0 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +k=1 +units=m +nadgrids=@null +wktext +no_defs +type=crs
#> Warning: Discarded datum World Geodetic System 1984 in CRS definition