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geosphere (version 1.2-19)

Spherical Trigonometry

Description

Spherical trigonometry for geographic applications

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install.packages('geosphere')

Monthly Downloads

31,638

Version

1.2-19

License

GPL

Maintainer

Robert Hijmans

Last Published

January 31st, 2011

Functions in geosphere (1.2-19)

finalBearing

Final direction
alongTrackDistance

Along Track Distance
bearingRhumb

Rhumbline direction
distRhumb

Distance along a rhumb line
antipode

Antipodes
gcIntermediate

Intermediate points on a great circle
gcLon

Longitude on a Great Circle
bearing

Direction of travel
gcLat

Latitude on a Great Circle
gcIntersectBearing

Intersections of two great circles
span

Span of polygons
makePoly

Add vertices to a polygon or line
gcMaxLat

Highest latitude on a great circle
randomCoordinates

Random or regularly distributed coordinates on the globe
greatCircleBearing

Great circle
dist2Line

Distance between points and lines or (the border of) polygons.
distVincentyEllipsoid

'Vincenty' (ellipsoid) great circle distance
destPoint

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

Is a point on a given great circle?
horizon

Distance to the horizon
distCosine

'Law of cosines' great circle distance
greatCircle

Great circle
wrld

World countries
distVincentySphere

'Vincenty' (sphere) great circle distance
daylength

Daylength
destPointRhumb

Destination along a rhumb line
midPoint

Mid-point
mercator

Mercator projection
gcIntersect

Intersections of two great circles
geosphere-package

Geosphere
perimeter

Compute the perimeter of a polygon
distHaversine

'Haversine' great circle distance
crossTrackDistfance

Cross Track Distance
distm

Distance matrix
distMeeus

'Meeus' great circle distance
plotArrows

Plot
areaPolygon

Compute the areaPolygon of a polygon
centroid

Centroid of spherical polygons