Standard global color palettes for factor variables

Description

A number of color palettes used to visualize various environmental categorical / factor variables: land cover classes, water types, anthroms, soil types and similar. Each colour palette consists of a variable number of colours (hexadecimal system). Factor levels names are attached as attributes to the palette.

Usage

data(worldgrids_pal)

Format

The list contains:

anthroms

Color palette used for the global map of anthroms (Ellis and Ramankutty, 2008).

bodemfgr

A simplified color palette for soil types.

corine2k

Color palette used in the Corine 2000 project for land cover classes (Büttner, et al., 2002).

glc2000

Color palette used for the Global Land Cover 2000 mapping project (Global Land Cover 2000).

globcov

Color palette used for the ENVISAT-based Global Land Cover map at resolution of 300 m (GlobCover Land Cover version V2.2).

gtkaart

Color palette used for the Ground water levels map of the Netherlands (Gaast et al. 2005).

IGBP

Color palette for 17 land cover classes defined by the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme (IGBP).

lgn3

Color palette used for the Dutch land use map (Hazeu, 2005).

t250vlak

Color palette used for the most general land use classes at scale 1:250k (TOP250NL).

watert

Color palette used for the water types (generalized) in the Netherlands.

Note

These colour palettes are only valid for factor-type variables. The names of classes used in the legend can be obtained by loading the palette list.

Author(s)

Tomislav Hengl

References

• Bicheron, P. et al. (2008) GLOBCOVER: Products Description and Validation Report. MEDIAS France, Toulouse, 47 p.

• Büttner, G. et al. (2002) Corine Land Cover update 2000, Technical guidelines. EEA (European Environment Agency), Kopenhagen.

• Ellis, E.C., Ramankutty, N. (2008) Putting people in the map: anthropogenic biomes of the world. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Vol. 6, No. 8, pp. 439-447.

• Fritz, S. et al. (2003) Harmonisation, mosaicing and production of the Global Land Cover 2000 database. JRC report EUR 20849 EN, Luxembourg, 41 p.

• Gaast, J.W.J. van der, H.R.J. Vroon en M. Pleijter, (2006) De grondwaterdynamiek in het waterschap Regge en Dinkel. Wageningen, Alterra-rapport 1335.

• Hazeu, G.W., (2005) Landelijk Grondgebruiksbestand Nederland (LGN5). Vervaardiging, nauwkeurigheid en gebruik. Wageningen, Alterra. Alterra-report 1213, 92 pp.

• Puijenbroek, P. van; Clement, J., (2008) Het oppervlaktewater getypeerd: de eerste Nederlandse watertypenkaart. Agro informatica 21(3): 21-25.

See Also

SAGA_pal, R_pal

Examples

data(worldgrids_pal)
## Not run: # globcov palette with class names:
display.pal(worldgrids_pal)
dev.off()
display.pal(worldgrids_pal, sel=5, names=TRUE)

## End(Not run)