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Active survey blocks for DFO Pacific groundfish surveys. Obtained via gfdata::get_active_survey_blocks() with some cleaning as documented in data-raw/survey_blocks.R.

Usage

survey_blocks

Format

Simple feature (sf) collection with 66293 features and 6 fields:

survey_abbrev

Survey abbreviation.

survey_series_id

Unique identifier for the survey series.

station_key

Unique identifier for each grid cell

depth_m

Depth in metres.

active_block

Is block actively fished as of date downloaded: e.g., attr(gfdata::survey_blocks, "date-downloaded"))

geometry

Represents grid cell.

area

Overwater area in km^2.

Examples

requireNamespace("ggplot2", quietly = TRUE)
library(sf)
#> Linking to GEOS 3.10.2, GDAL 3.4.1, PROJ 8.2.1; sf_use_s2() is TRUE
library(ggplot2)
gfdata::survey_blocks |>
  ggplot(aes(colour = survey_abbrev)) +
  geom_sf() +
  theme_minimal() +
  scale_colour_brewer(palette = "Dark2")

attr(gfdata::survey_blocks, "date-generated")
#> [1] "2024-06-26"
attr(gfdata::survey_blocks, "date-downloaded")
#> [1] "2024-06-13"