Forest Cover of Spain

Download the MFE50 (Spanish Forestry Map 1:50,000) for a province. The MFE50 was built during 1997-2006.

Usage

fd_forest_spain_mfe50(province, path_metadata = NULL, quiet = TRUE)

Arguments

province: a character string of length 1 with the name of a Spanish province
path_metadata: a character string of length 1 with the path to store the metadata of the MFE50. The default path_metadata = NULL does not download the metadata
quiet: if TRUE (the default), suppress status messages, and the progress bar

Value

A sf object with POLYGON geometry

Details

The Spanish Forestry Map at scale 1:50,000 is a project that was undertaken during the years 1997-2006. The data contains the cartography of forest stands in Spain. The definition of the variables is contained in an excel file that can be downloaded by using the argument path_metadata.

References

https://www.miteco.gob.es/es/biodiversidad/servicios/banco-datos-naturaleza/informacion-disponible/mfe50.html

Examples

# \donttest{
# Download MFE50 for the province of Lugo
lugo_mfe50_sf <- fd_forest_spain_mfe50(province = "Lugo")
# }