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ALUES: Agricultural Land Use Evaluation System, R package

Authors: Arnold R. Salvacion                                                                        arsalvacion@gmail.com Data Analysis and Visualization using R (blog)                                          Al-Ahmadgaid B. Asaad (maintainer) alstated@gmail.com Agricultural Land Use Evaluation System (ALUES) is an R package that evaluates land suitability for different crop production. The package is based on the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) methodology for land evaluation. Development of ALUES is inspired by similar tool for land evaluation, Land Use Suitability Evaluation Tool (LUSET). The package uses fuzzy logic approach to evaluate land suitability of a particular area based on inputs such as rainfall, temperature, topography, and soil properties. The membership functions used for fuzzy modeling are the following: Triangular, Trapezoidal and Gaussian. The methods for computing the overall suitability of