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geosphere (version 1.5-5)
Spherical Trigonometry
Description
Spherical trigonometry for geographic applications. That is, compute distances and related measures for angular (longitude/latitude) locations.
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install.packages('geosphere')
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License
GPL (>= 3)
Maintainer
Robert Hijmans
Last Published
June 15th, 2016
Functions in geosphere (1.5-5)
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destPointRhumb
Destination along a rhumb line
bearingRhumb
Rhumbline direction
antipode
Antipodes
daylength
Daylength
areaPolygon
Area of a longitude/latitude polygon
bearing
Direction of travel
centroid
Centroid of spherical polygons
alongTrackDistance
Along Track Distance
destPoint
Destination given bearing (direction) and distance
wrld
World countries
dist2gc
Cross Track Distance
dist2Line
Distance between points and lines or the border of polygons.
distRhumb
Distance along a rhumb line
distCosine
'Law of cosines' great circle distance
distVincentyEllipsoid
'Vincenty' (ellipsoid) great circle distance
distMeeus
'Meeus' great circle distance
distVincentySphere
'Vincenty' (sphere) great circle distance
distHaversine
'Haversine' great circle distance
distm
Distance matrix
distGeo
Distance on an ellipsoid (the geodesic)
gcLon
Longitude on a Great Circle
gcMaxLat
Highest latitude on a great circle
finalBearing
Final direction
gcIntersect
Intersections of two great circles
geodesic
geodesic and inverse geodesic problem
gcIntersectBearing
Intersections of two great circles
gcLat
Latitude on a Great Circle
geomean
Mean location of sperhical coordinates
geosphere-package
Geosphere
greatCircle
Great circle
midPoint
Mid-point
onGreatCircle
Is a point on a given great circle?
intermediate
Intermediate points on a great circle (sphere)
mercator
Mercator projection
makePoly
Add vertices to a polygon or line
perimeter
Compute the perimeter of a longitude/latitude polygon
plotArrows
Plot
randomCoordinates
Random or regularly distributed coordinates on the globe
greatCircleBearing
Great circle
horizon
Distance to the horizon
refEllipsoids
Reference ellipsoids
span
Span of polygons