secrlinear (version 1.0.3)

Silverstream: Silverstream River Centrelines

Description

Silverstream (45$^o$48' S, 170$^o$26' E) is a small river in a forested catchment near Dunedin, New Zealand, about 12 km from top to bottom. There are numerous side streams making this a good example of a dendritic network.

format

An ESRI polyline shapefile (silverstream.shp, silverstream.shx, silverstream.dbf).

source

Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) 1:50 000 topographic database http://data.linz.govt.nz/layer/327-nz-mainland-river-centrelines-topo-150k/ licensed by LINZ for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence. Downloaded 2014-10-26.

References

ESRI (1998) ESRI shapefile technical description. http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf.

Examples

setwd(system.file("extdata", package = "secrlinear"))
silverstreammask <- read.linearmask(file = "silverstream.shp", spacing = 50)
par(mar = c(1,1,1,1))
plot(silverstreammask)