Inventory Layer
The Inventory Layer file creates the initial inventory layer. The
input_traza
, input_SOC
and the output_gcbm
parameters define
the Trazabilidad file where the land usage data is stored, the folder
where the soil organic carbon data is stored and the folder of the
output data respectively.
Apart from this, we define the inventory_year
which denotes the
initial year of model execution. The layer_traza
and layer_SOC
defines the land use data (Trazabilidad) and the Soil organic carbon
data from FAO respectively.
We will be generating the inventory layer from the trazabilidad file by reading the same and optionally filtering the database to accommodate the polygons that were forest at a particular point in the time-series data. Further, the classifiers are assigned, which includes the Tipofor classifier, Forest structure classifier and Origin classifier.
The Tipofor classifier gets the forest types from the 1997 map and assigns the “Bosque Mixto” and “Matorral Arborescente” forest type from the T1 column. Polygons that are “non forest” will be left as No Forestal.
traza$Tipofor <- as.character(traza$T_F_97)
traza$Tipofor <- ifelse(traza$T1 == "0403", "Bosque Mixto", as.character(traza$Tipofor))
traza$Tipofor <- ifelse(traza$T1 == "0304", "Matorral Arborescente", as.character(traza$Tipofor))
traza$Tipofor <- ifelse(is.na(traza$Tipofor), "No forestal", as.character(traza$Tipofor))
The Forest structure classifier follows the same steps, albeit we add a filter to leave only 4 columns. The origin classifier is used to distinguish between forests that comes from the initial inventory (bosque inicial) for accounting purposes.
Initially, the shapefile is reprojected and the SOC is calculated by calculating the mean of each polygon. Later the age and SOC is determined by reprojecting the input shapefile to latitude and longitude and calculating the mean data in each polygon. If the GCBM detects a SOC greater than 0 in a forest pixel it will not work.
Finally, the historic and current land use assumptions are made, taking
into account, FL if it is a native forest, and CL if not. The shapefile
is written and the inventory layer is published in the Output_files
directory.