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While ALUES can generate tables for suitability scores and classes, it would be best to visualize it via maps. The main requirement of course is the availability of the longitude and latitude for each of the land units. This is possible for Marinduque as it has spatial variables (longitude and latitude).

Suitability scores and classes

Suppose we want to evaluate the land units for banana, then:

library(ALUES)
y <- MarinduqueLT
banana_suit <- suit("banana", terrain=y)

## Warning in suitability(terrain, crop_soil, mf = mf, sow_month = NULL, minimum
## = minimum, : maximum is set to 16 for factor CECc since all parameter intervals
## are equal.

banana_ovsuit <- overall_suit(banana_suit[["soil"]], method="average")

Generate maps

There are several ways to generate maps in R, but the following uses ggmap library:

library(ggmap)
library(raster)
library(reshape2)
map_lvl0 <- getData("GADM", country = "PHL", level = 0)
map_lvl2 <- getData("GADM", country = "PHL", level = 2)

prov <- map_lvl2[map_lvl2$NAME_1 == as.character("Marinduque"),]
munic_coord <- coordinates(prov)
munic_coord <- data.frame(munic_coord)
munic_coord$label <- prov@data$NAME_2

val <- banana_suit[["soil"]][[2]]
val["Overall Suitability"] <- banana_ovsuit[,1]
d_map <- melt(as.matrix(val))
d_map$Lon <- rep(y$Lon, ncol(val)); d_map$Lat <- rep(y$Lat, ncol(val))

fill <- "#FFF7BC"; shadow <- "#9ECAE1"; ncol <- 3; size <- 3; alpha <- 1
text_opts <- list(alpha = 1, angle = 0, colour = "black", family = "sans", fontface = 1, lineheight = 1, size = 3)
labels <- list(title = "", xlab = "", ylab = "")

p1 <- ggplot() + geom_polygon(data = prov, aes(long + 0.008, lat - 0.005, group = group), fill = shadow) + 
  geom_polygon(data = prov, aes(long, lat, group = group), colour = "grey50", fill = fill) +
  geom_tile(aes(x = Lat, y = Lon, fill = value), data = d_map, size = size, alpha = alpha) +
  facet_wrap(~ Var2, ncol = ncol) +
  geom_polygon(data = prov, aes(long, lat, group = group), colour = "#4E4E4C", alpha = 0) +
  geom_label(data = munic_coord, aes(x = X1, y = X2, label = label), alpha = 0.5,
            angle = text_opts$angle, colour = "white", fill = "black", family = text_opts$family,
            fontface = text_opts$fontface,
            lineheight = text_opts$lineheight, size = text_opts$size) +
  coord_equal() + ggtitle(as.character(labels$title)) + xlab(as.character(labels$xlab)) + ylab(as.character(labels$ylab)) +
  scale_fill_gradientn(name = "Score\n", colors = c("red", "#FFDF00")) +
  scale_x_continuous(breaks = round(seq(min(d_map$Lat) + 0.05, max(d_map$Lat), len = 3), 2)) +
  theme(panel.background = element_rect(fill = '#F7E7CE'), 
        strip.background = element_rect(fill = "#D4BF96"),
        strip.text.x = element_text(size = 12),
        axis.text.x = element_text(size=12), 
        legend.text=element_text(size=12),
        legend.title=element_text(size=12),
        axis.text.y = element_text(size=12), legend.position = c(0.85, 0.25))
p1

plot of chunk unnamed-chunk-3 And for suitability classes:

val <- banana_suit[["soil"]][[3]]
val["Overall Suitability"] <- banana_ovsuit[,2]
d_map <- melt(as.matrix(val))
d_map$Lon <- rep(y$Lon, ncol(val)); d_map$Lat <- rep(y$Lat, ncol(val))

d_map$Class <- factor(d_map$value, levels=c("N", "S3", "S2", "S1"))

p1 <- ggplot() + geom_polygon(data = prov, aes(long + 0.008, lat - 0.005, group = group), fill = shadow) + 
  geom_polygon(data = prov, aes(long, lat, group = group), colour = "grey50", fill = fill) +
  geom_tile(aes(x = Lat, y = Lon, fill = Class), data = d_map, size = size, alpha = alpha) +
  facet_wrap(~ Var2, ncol = ncol) +
  geom_polygon(data = prov, aes(long, lat, group = group), colour = "#4E4E4C", alpha = 0) +
  geom_label(data = munic_coord, aes(x = X1, y = X2, label = label), alpha = 0.5,
             angle = text_opts$angle, colour = "white", fill = "black", family = text_opts$family,
             fontface = text_opts$fontface,
             lineheight = text_opts$lineheight, size = text_opts$size) +
  coord_equal() + ggtitle(as.character(labels$title)) + xlab(as.character(labels$xlab)) + ylab(as.character(labels$ylab)) +
  scale_colour_discrete(name = "Class\n", breaks=c("N", "S3", "S2", "S1"), labels=c("N", "S3", "S2", "S1")) +
  scale_x_continuous(breaks = round(seq(min(d_map$Lat) + 0.05, max(d_map$Lat), len = 3), 2)) +
  theme(panel.background = element_rect(fill = '#F7E7CE'), 
        strip.background = element_rect(fill = "#D4BF96"),
        strip.text.x = element_text(size = 12),
        axis.text.x = element_text(size=12), 
        legend.text=element_text(size=12),
        legend.title=element_text(size=12),
        axis.text.y = element_text(size=12), legend.position = c(0.85, 0.25))
p1

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