rast.grad: Creates gradient rasters from a raster object.

In ctmcmove: Modeling Animal Movement with Continuous-Time Discrete-Space Markov Chains

Creates gradient rasters from a raster object.

Description

This function takes a raster stack or raster object and creates two matrices for each raster layer, one which contains the x coordinates of the gradient of the raster layer and one which contains the y coordinates of the gradient of the raster layer.

Usage

rast.grad(rasterstack)

Arguments

rasterstack

A raster layer or raster stack from package "raster".

Details

The gradient is computed using the "terrain" function in raster.

Value

xy	A matrix of x and y coordinates of each cell in the raster stack or raster layer. The order is the order of the cells in the raster object.
grad.x	a matrix where each column is the x-coordinates of the gradient for one raster layer
grad.y	a matrix where each column is the y-coordinates of the gradient for one raster layer
rast.grad.x	A raster stack where each raster layer is the x-coordinates of the gradient for one covariate
rast.grad.y	A raster stack where each raster layer is the x-coordinates of the gradient for one covariate

Author(s)

Ephraim M. Hanks

References

Hanks, E. M.; Hooten, M. B. & Alldredge, M. W. Continuous-time Discrete-space Models for Animal Movement The Annals of Applied Statistics, 2015, 9, 145-165

Examples

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