Add Elevation Data to a Dataframe

Source: R/addUSGSElevation.R

USGS APIs are used to determine elevation associated with the locations specified by the lonVar and latVar columns of the incoming dataframe.

addUSGSElevation(
  df,
  lonVar = "longitude",
  latVar = "latitude",
  existingMeta = NULL
)

Arguments

df

dataframe with geolocation information (e.g. created by wrcc_qualityControl() or airsis_qualityControl)
lonVar

name of longitude variable in the incoming dataframe
latVar

name of the latitude variable in the incoming dataframe
existingMeta

existing 'meta' dataframe from which to obtain metadata for known monitor deployments

Value

Input dataframe with (possibly) additional column: elevation.

References

https://nationalmap.gov/epqs/