Agricultural Land Use Evaluation System (ALUES) is an R package thatevaluates land suitability for different crops production. The packageis based on the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International RiceResearch Institute (IRRI)methodology for land evaluation. Development of ALUES is inspired bysimilar tool for land evaluation, Land Use Suitability Evaluation Tool(LUSET). The package uses fuzzy logic approach to evaluate landsuitability of a particular area based on inputs such as rainfall,temperature, topography, and soil properties. The membership functionsused for fuzzy modeling are the following:Triangular,Trapezoidal andGaussian. The methods for computingthe overall suitability of a particular area are also included, andthese are theMinimum,Maximum andAverage.Finally, ALUES is a highly optimized library with core algorithmswritten in C++.
The package is not yet on CRAN, and is currently under development ongithub. To install it, run the following:
install.packages("devtools")library(devtools)install_github("alstat/ALUES")We want to hear some feedbacks, so if you have any suggestion orissues regarding this package, please do submit ithere.