fwatlasbc

fwatlasbc is an R package for querying data from the Freshwater Atlas (FWA) of British Columbia. Spatial data are returned as simple features.

fwatlasbc wraps fwapgr, an R package that uses the fwapg API.

Installation

You can install the latest version of fwatlasbc from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("poissonconsulting/fwatlasbc")

Demonstration

Find stream names using regular expression. There may be more than one stream name that matches the regular expression.

library(fwatlasbc)
streams <- fwa_find_stream_names("steep c")
streams
#> # A tibble: 2 × 1
#>   stream_name       
#>   <chr>             
#> 1 Steep Canyon Creek
#> 2 Steep Creek

Add blue line keys (blk) to stream names. There may be multiple streams with the same name.

blks <- fwa_add_blks_to_stream_name(streams)
blks
#> # A tibble: 4 × 2
#>   stream_name              blk
#>   <chr>                  <int>
#> 1 Steep Canyon Creek 360883036
#> 2 Steep Creek        356362258
#> 3 Steep Creek        356534225
#> 4 Steep Creek        356570155
blks <- blks[blks$blk == 356534225, ]

Alternatively get the nearest blue line key and river meter (rm) from the longitude and latitude. The river meter is the distance in meters as the fish swims from the mouth of the river. The distance_to_lon_lat is the how far the original point was from the stream in meters.

fwa_add_blk_to_lon_lat(data.frame(lon = -132.26, lat = 53.36))
#> Simple feature collection with 1 feature and 5 fields
#> Geometry type: POINT
#> Dimension:     XY
#> Bounding box:  xmin: 585153.6 ymin: 946162.9 xmax: 585153.6 ymax: 946162.9
#> Projected CRS: NAD83 / BC Albers
#> # A tibble: 1 × 6
#>     lon   lat       blk    rm distance_to_lon_lat            geometry
#>   <dbl> <dbl>     <int> <dbl>               <dbl>         <POINT [m]>
#> 1 -132.  53.4 360824839 1118.                508. (585153.6 946162.9)

Get watershed (by aggregating fundamental watersheds) for a blue line key and river meter (by default 0). If it errors try increasing the river meter.

wshed <- fwa_add_watershed_to_blk(blks)
wshed
#> Simple feature collection with 1 feature and 3 fields
#> Geometry type: POLYGON
#> Dimension:     XY
#> Bounding box:  xmin: 1656219 ymin: 725423.4 xmax: 1661727 ymax: 732146.6
#> Projected CRS: NAD83 / BC Albers
#> # A tibble: 1 × 4
#>   stream_name       blk    rm                                           geometry
#>   <chr>           <int> <dbl>                                      <POLYGON [m]>
#> 1 Steep Creek 356534225     0 ((1658107 728965.2, 1658107 728965.2, 1658180 728…

Get stream network for the watershed polygon. Note that rm is from the original watershed while downstream/upstream_route_measure are the equivalents for the stream segment in the network.

network <- fwa_add_collection_to_polygon(wshed, "stream_network")
network
#> Simple feature collection with 76 features and 29 fields
#> Geometry type: LINESTRING
#> Dimension:     XY
#> Bounding box:  xmin: 1656200 ymin: 725423.4 xmax: 1661368 ymax: 731603
#> Projected CRS: NAD83 / BC Albers
#> # A tibble: 76 × 30
#>    stream_name       blk    rm blue_line_key blue_line_key_50k
#>    <chr>           <int> <dbl>         <int>             <int>
#>  1 Steep Creek 356436505     0     356436505                NA
#>  2 Steep Creek 356526193     0     356526193               873
#>  3 Steep Creek 356566041     0     356566041              1130
#>  4 Steep Creek 356549188     0     356549188              1131
#>  5 Steep Creek 356566041     0     356566041              1130
#>  6 Steep Creek 356394005     0     356394005                NA
#>  7 Steep Creek 356534225     0     356534225              1142
#>  8 Steep Creek 356549188     0     356549188              1131
#>  9 Steep Creek 356526193     0     356526193               873
#> 10 Steep Creek 356566041     0     356566041              1130
#> # ℹ 66 more rows
#> # ℹ 25 more variables: downstream_route_measure <dbl>, edge_type <dbl>,
#> #   feature_code <chr>, feature_source <chr>, fwa_watershed_code <chr>,
#> #   gnis_id <int>, gnis_name <chr>, gradient <dbl>, left_right_tributary <chr>,
#> #   length_metre <dbl>, linear_feature_id <int>, local_watershed_code <chr>,
#> #   localcode_ltree <chr>, stream_magnitude <dbl>, stream_order <dbl>,
#> #   upstream_route_measure <dbl>, waterbody_key <dbl>, …

Convert the stream network into a table of blue line keys with regularly spaced river meters starting at 0.

# rms <- fwa_convert_stream_network_to_rms(network, interval = 100)
# rms

Plot the watershed, network and river meters.

ggplot2::ggplot() +
  ggplot2::geom_sf(data = wshed) +
  ggplot2::geom_sf(data = network, color = "blue") +
  #  ggplot2::geom_sf(data = rms) +
  NULL

Inspiration

fwatlasbc supersedes the archived fwabc which retrieved data via WFS using bcdata.

Creditation

fwatlasbc relies on fwapg API which is created, maintained and hosted by Simon Norris at Hillcrest Geographics.

Contribution

Please report any issues.

Pull requests are always welcome.

Code of Conduct

Please note that fwatlasbc is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.