loreyHeight: Lorey's mean height

In dendrometry: Forest Estimations and Dendrometric Computations

Lorey's mean height

Description

The average height of the trees in a plot, weighted by their basal area.

Usage

loreyHeight(basal, height)

Arguments

basal	numeric, vector of trees' individual basal area.
height	numeric, vector of trees' individual height.

Value

Average Lorey height of a stand.

See Also

height, basal_i

Examples

set.seed(1)
donnee <- data.frame(
  hauteur = rnorm(10, 12, 3),
  area = basal_i(rnorm(10, 100, 20))
)
loreyHeight(basal = donnee$area, height = donnee$hauteur)

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