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Wisconsin Lake Sampling Sites

Source: R/data.R
wisconsin_lakes.Rd

A dataset containing example sampling sites from well-known Wisconsin lakes. These coordinates are useful for testing with real lake boundaries from OpenStreetMap.

Usage

wisconsin_lakes

Format

A data frame with 8 rows and 4 variables:

Site

Unique site identifier

lake.name

Name of the lake

latitude

Latitude in decimal degrees (WGS84)

longitude

Longitude in decimal degrees (WGS84)

Source

Synthetic data based on real lake locations

Details

The dataset includes sites from three Wisconsin lakes:

  • Lake Mendota (3 sites) - Madison's largest lake, well-studied

  • Lake Monona (2 sites) - Connected to Mendota via Yahara River

  • Geneva Lake (3 sites) - Popular recreational lake in SE Wisconsin

Examples

# Load the dataset
data(wisconsin_lakes)

# View the data
head(wisconsin_lakes)
#>           Site    lake.name latitude longitude
#> 1    Mendota_N Lake Mendota  43.1125 -89.42340
#> 2    Mendota_S Lake Mendota  43.0756 -89.40120
#> 3 Mendota_Deep Lake Mendota  43.0995 -89.40450
#> 4     Monona_1  Lake Monona  43.0634 -89.36120
#> 5     Monona_2  Lake Monona  43.0589 -89.37890
#> 6     Geneva_E  Geneva Lake  42.5849 -88.44205

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
# Use with lakefetch (requires internet connection)
sites <- load_sites(wisconsin_lakes)
lake_data <- get_lake_boundary(sites)
results <- fetch_calculate(sites, lake_data)
}