buntley.westin.index

A character vector containing Munsell hues (e.g. "7.5YR")

A numeric vector containing Munsell chromas

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Calculate "Color Development Equivalent" by the method of Buntley &amp; Westin (1965) "A Comparative Study of Developmental Color in a Chestnut-Chernozem-Brunizem Soil Climosequence" DOI: 10.2136/sssaj1965.03615995002900050029x. Originally developed for Mollisols, the Buntley-Westin index has been used as a tool to separate soils based on depth to particular colors.

The Algorithms for Quantitative Pedology (AQP) project was started in 2009 to organize a loosely-related set of concepts and source code on the topic of soil profile visualization, aggregation, and classification into this package (aqp). Over the past 8 years, the project has grown into a suite of related R packages that enhance and simplify the quantitative analysis of soil profile data. Central to the AQP project is a new vocabulary of specialized functions and data structures that can accommodate the inherent complexity of soil profile information; freeing the scientist to focus on ideas rather than boilerplate data processing tasks <doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2012.10.020>. These functions and data structures have been extensively tested and documented, applied to projects involving hundreds of thousands of soil profiles, and deeply integrated into widely used tools such as SoilWeb <https://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/soilweb-apps/>. Components of the AQP project (aqp, soilDB, sharpshootR, soilReports packages) serve an important role in routine data analysis within the USDA-NRCS Soil Science Division. The AQP suite of R packages offer a convenient platform for bridging the gap between pedometric theory and practice.

buntley.westin.index: Buntley-Westin (1965) Index

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