lczexplore : an R package to compare different local climate zone classifications on same geographical areas

The goal of  lczexplore is to explore and compare Local Climate Zone classifications of urban areas. 

Climate change is a growing concern for city planners with a special focus on Urban Heat Island phenomenons. 
Stewardt and Oke have proposed a classification of Local Climate Zones (LCZ) that describe rural and urban areas, with 10 built types and 7 land cover types. 

Several approaches classify land units into LCZ and may produce different results. 
For instance, the GeoClimate geospatial toolbox use GIS layers from OpenStreetMap or the french BD Topo 
whereas the WUDAPT platform uses remotely sensed information and local expert knowledge. 

The lczexplore packages allows to easily : 
- load these classification from GIS layers
- produce maps of these LCZ classification
- compare these classifications