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geosphere (version 1.2.1)

Spherical Trigonometry

Description

Spherical trigonometry for geographic applications

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install.packages('geosphere')

Monthly Downloads

35,231

Version

1.2.1

License

GPL

Maintainer

Robert Hijmans

Last Published

May 1st, 2010

Functions in geosphere (1.2.1)

gcMaxLat

Highest latitude on a great circle
greatCircleBearing

Great circle
areaPolygon

Compute the areaPolygon of a polygon
gcIntersect

Intersections of two great circles
alongTrackDistance

Along Track Distance
span

Span of polygons
gcIntermediate

Intermediate points on a great circle
distm

Distance matrix
distVincentySphere

'Vincenty' (sphere) great circle distance
daylength

date routines
horizon

distance to horizon
midPoint

Mid-point
perimeter

Compute the perimeter of a polygon
distCosine

'Law of cosines' great circle distance
greatCircle

Great circle
gcLon

Longitude on a Great Circle
destPointRhumb

Destination along a rhumb line
makePoly

make a polygon
distHaversine

'Havesine' great circle distance
distRhumb

Distance along a rhumb line
finalBearing

Final direction
centroid

centroid of polygons
gcLat

Latitude on a Great Circle
gcIntersectBearing

Intersections of two great circles
destPoint

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

Mercator projection
wrld

World countries
crossTrackDistance

Cross Track Distance
bearing

bearing of travel
antipode

Antipodes
geosphere-package

Geosphere
bearingRhumb

Rhumbline direction
distVincentyEllipsoid

'Vincenty' (ellipsoid) great circle distance