Match dashboard metadata to AlgAware stations using spatial join — match_bins_to_stations • algaware

Finds IFCB bins sampled near AlgAware stations by creating buffers around station centroids and performing a spatial join.

Usage

match_bins_to_stations(metadata, algaware_stations)

Arguments

metadata: A data.frame with at least latitude and longitude columns (from dashboard metadata).
algaware_stations: A data.frame from load_algaware_stations().

Value

A tibble of metadata rows matched to stations, with STATION_NAME, COAST, and STATION_NAME_SHORT columns added.