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raster.north

Create northness layer.

Description

Create a layer depicting northness based on an elevation layer.

Usage

raster.north(dem)

Arguments

dem

RasterLayer object of elevation (a digital elevation model - DEM) as defined by package raster.

Details

Using elevation, aspect can be calculated. Yet, it is a circular variable (0 = 360) and has to be converted to northness and eastness to be useful for modelling.

Value

A RasterLayer object.

Examples

data(red.layers)
raster::plot(raster.north(red.layers[[3]]))

red

IUCN Redlisting Tools

v1.5.0

GPL-3

Authors

Pedro Cardoso

Initial release

2020-05-04