--- title: "Layers, contributor values, and RAT metadata" output: rmarkdown::html_vignette vignette: > %\VignetteIndexEntry{Layers, contributor values, and RAT metadata} %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown} %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8} --- ```{r, include=FALSE} knitr::opts_chunk$set(collapse = TRUE, comment = "#>", eval = FALSE) ``` BlueTopo source GeoTIFFs currently include elevation, vertical uncertainty, and contributor/source identifier bands. `bluertopo` exposes those as canonical layer names. ## Elevation only ```{r} elevation <- bluertopo( aoi, layers = "elevation" ) ``` ## All canonical layers ```{r} all_layers <- bluertopo( aoi, layers = "all", details = TRUE ) names(all_layers$data) ``` The contributor band contains numeric identifiers. Interpret those identifiers with the NOAA RAT sidecar metadata and source documentation. `bluertopo` can download RAT sidecars with the original assets, but it does not currently normalize contributor tables into a package-level lookup. NOAA's BlueTopo product page is the package's primary external reference: . ```{r} assets <- bluertopo_download( aoi, path = file.path(tempdir(), "bluertopo-downloads"), rat = TRUE ) subset(assets, asset_type == "rat") ``` ## Vertical-reference metadata `bluertopo(details = TRUE)` includes vertical-reference text discovered by `terra`/GDAL metadata inspection when available. ```{r} result <- bluertopo(aoi, details = TRUE) result$provenance$vertical_reference_text ```