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soiltexture (version 1.2.9)

TT.polygon.area: Determines the area of 1 polygon (in x-y coordinates).

Description

Determines the area of 1 non-intersecting polygon (in x-y coordinates). Used by TT.polygon.centroids(). pol.x[1]:pol.y[1] is supposed different from pol.x[n]:pol.y[n] (i.e. the polygon is NOT closed). After "http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/geometry/polyarea/ Calculating The Area And Centroid Of A Polygon. Written by Paul Bourke, July 1988".

Usage

TT.polygon.area(pol.x,

pol.y)

Arguments

pol.x
Vector of numericals. X coordinates of each vertices of the polygon.
pol.y
Vector of numericals. Y coordinates of each vertices of the polygon.

Value

  • Returns a single numerical: area of the polygon.