MEDITS.distance: Estimation of haul distance

In MEDITS: Analysis of MEDITS-Like Survey Data

Description

Function to estimate the hauls length in meters, kilometers and nautical miles, using hauls data (TA, table A) with coordinates in the MEDITS format

Usage

MEDITS.distance(data, unit = "m", verbose=TRUE)

Arguments

data	data frame containing the hauls data (TA, table A).
unit	string value indicating the measure unit of the distance. Allowed values: "m" for meters, "km" for kilometers and "NM" for nautical miles.
verbose	give verbose output reporting in the output the selected measure unit of the distance.

Details

Use data frame containing coordinates in MEDITS format

Value

The function returns the vector of the distances expressed in the selected measure unit.

Author(s)

Walter Zupa

Examples

MEDITS.distance(TA, unit="km", verbose=TRUE)

MEDITS documentation built on Dec. 23, 2019, 1:06 a.m.