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geosphere (version 1.1.2)

Spherical Trigonometry

Description

Spherical trigonometry for geographic applications

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install.packages('geosphere')

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Version

1.1.2

License

GPL

Maintainer

Robert Hijmans

Last Published

April 19th, 2010

Functions in geosphere (1.1.2)

destPoint

Destination given bearing (direction) and distance, when following a Great Circle
antipode

Antipodes
daylength

date routines
distHaversine

'Havesine' great circle distance
bearing

bearing of travel
wrld

World countries
destPointRhumb

Destination along a rhumb line
midPoint

Mid-point
gcLat

Latitude on a Great Circle
distVincentySphere

'Vincenty' (sphere) great circle distance
finalBearing

Final direction
distVincentyEllipsoid

'Vincenty' (ellipsoid) great circle distance
rhumbIntersect

Intersecting radials
mercator

Mercator projection
gcMaxLat

Highest latitude on a great circle
perimeter

Compute the perimeter of a polygon
alongTrackDistance

Along Track Distance
distRhumb

Distance along a rhumb line
geosphere-package

Geosphere
greatCircle

Great circle
areaPolygon

Compute the area of a polygon
distHorizon

distance to horizon
distCosine

'Law of cosines' great circle distance
gcIntersect

Intersections of two great circles
greatCircleIntermediat

Intermediate points on a great circle
gcLon

Longitude on a Great Circle
crossTrackDistance

Cross Track Distance
bearingRhumb

Rhumbline direction