spatialsample: Spatial Sampling within a Polygon

In BiodiversityR: Package for Community Ecology and Suitability Analysis

Spatial Sampling within a Polygon

Description

Spatial sampling within a polygon provides several methods of selecting rectangular sample plots within a polygon. Using a GIS package may be preferred for actual survey design.

Usage

spatialsample(x,method="random",n=5,xwidth=0.5,ywidth=0.5,xleft=0,
    ylower=0,xdist=0,ydist=0,plotit=T,plothull=F)

Arguments

x	2-column matrix with the coordinates of the vertices of the polygon. The first column contains the horizontal (x) position, the second column contains the vertical (y) position.
method	Method of sampling, any of "random", "grid" or "random grid".
n	Number of sample plots to be selected, or number of horizontal and vertical grid positions.
xwidth	Horizontal width of the sample plots.
ywidth	Vertical width of the sample plots.
xleft	Horizontal starting position of the grid.
ylower	Vertical starting position of the grid.
xdist	Horizontal distance between grid locations.
ydist	Vertical distance between grid locations.
plotit	Plot the sample plots on the current graph.
plothull	Plot a convex hull around the sample plots.

Details

Spatial sampling within a polygon provides several methods of selecting the position of sample plots.

Method "random" selects random positions of the sample plots using simple random sampling.

Method "grid" selects sample plots from a grid defined by "xleft", "ylower", "xdist" and "ydist". In case xdist=0 or ydist=0, then the number of grid positions are defined by "n". In case "xleft" or "ylower" are below the minimum position of any vertix of the polygon, then a random starting position is selected for the grid.

Method "random grid" selects sample plots at random from the sampling grid using the same methods of defining the grid as for method "grid".

Value

The function returns a list of centres of rectangular sample plots.

Author(s)

Roeland Kindt (World Agroforestry Centre)

References

Kindt, R. & Coe, R. (2005) Tree diversity analysis: A manual and software for common statistical methods for ecological and biodiversity studies.

https://www.worldagroforestry.org/output/tree-diversity-analysis

Examples

library(splancs)
area <- array(c(10,10,15,35,40,35,5,35,35,30,30,10), dim=c(6,2))
landuse1 <- array(c(10,10,15,15,30,35,35,30), dim=c(4,2))
landuse2 <- array(c(10,10,15,15,35,30,10,30,30,35,30,15), dim=c(6,2))
landuse3 <- array(c(10,10,30,35,40,35,5,10,15,30,30,10), dim=c(6,2))
plot(area[,1], area[,2], type="n", xlab="horizontal position", 
    ylab="vertical position", lwd=2, bty="l")
polygon(landuse1)
polygon(landuse2)
polygon(landuse3)
spatialsample(area, method="random", n=20, xwidth=1, ywidth=1, plotit=TRUE, 
    plothull=FALSE)
spatialsample(area, method="grid", xwidth=1, ywidth=1, plotit=TRUE, xleft=12, 
    ylower=7, xdist=4, ydist=4)
spatialsample(area, method="random grid", n=20, xwidth=1, ywidth=1, 
    plotit=TRUE, xleft=12, ylower=7, xdist=4, ydist=4)

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