raster (version 2.5-2)

intersect: Intersect

Description

It depends on the classes of the x and y what is returned. If x is a Raster* object the extent of y is used, irrespective of the class of y, and a Raster* is returned. This is equivalent to crop. If x is a Spatial* object, a new Spatial* object is returned. If x or y has a data.frame, these are also returned (after merging if necessary) as part of a Spatial*DataFrame, and this is how intersect is different from rgeos::gIntersection on which it depends. Intersecting SpatialPoints* with SpatialPoints* uses the extent (bounding box) of y to get the intersection. Intersecting of SpatialPoints* and SpatialLines* is not supported because of numerical inaccuracies with that. You can use buffer, to create SpatialPoygons* from SpatialLines* and use that in intersect. Or try gIntersection.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'Extent,ANY':
intersect(x, y)

## S3 method for class 'Raster,ANY':
intersect(x, y)

## S3 method for class 'SpatialPoints,ANY':
intersect(x, y)

## S3 method for class 'SpatialPolygons,SpatialPolygons':
intersect(x, y)

## S3 method for class 'SpatialPolygons,SpatialLines':
intersect(x, y)

## S3 method for class 'SpatialPolygons,SpatialPoints':
intersect(x, y)

## S3 method for class 'SpatialLines,SpatialPolygons':
intersect(x, y)

## S3 method for class 'SpatialLines,SpatialLines':
intersect(x, y)

Arguments

x

Extent, Raster*, SpatialPolygons*, SpatialLines* or SpatialPoints* object

y

same as for x

Value

• if x is an Extent object: Extent if x is a Raster* object: Raster* if x is a SpatialPoints* object: SpatialPoints* if x is a SpatialPolygons* object: SpatialPolygons* if x is a SpatialLines* object and if y is a SpatialLines* object: SpatialPoints* if x is a SpatialLines* object and if y is a SpatialPolygons* object: SpatialLines*

See Also

union, extent, crop

Examples

e1 <- extent(-10, 10, -20, 20)
e2 <- extent(0, 20, -40, 5)
intersect(e1, e2)

#SpatialPolygons
if (require(rgdal) & require(rgeos)) {
	p <- shapefile(system.file("external/lux.shp", package="raster"))
	b <- as(extent(6, 6.4, 49.75, 50), 'SpatialPolygons')
	projection(b) <- projection(p)
	i <- intersect(p, b)
	plot(p)
	plot(b, add=TRUE, col='red')
	plot(i, add=TRUE, col='blue', lwd=2)
}