nodeFilling: Produces a grid of locations inside the region boundary.

In latticeDensity: Density Estimation and Nonparametric Regression on Irregular Regions

Description

nodeFilling produces a grid of locations that are the nodes in the diffusion process.

Usage

nodeFilling(poly, node_spacing, hole_list = NULL)

Arguments

poly	A matrix that contains the vertices of the bounding polygon.
node_spacing	The distance between grid locations.
hole_list	Optional list of holes to be removed from the region

Details

nodeFilling superimposes a square grid of points over the region, with spacing given by the parameter node_spacing. The points contained in the region are retained. The output, a nodeFillingOutput object, contains the boundaries of the region (and holes), the set of nodes, and EW and NS coordinates necessary for creating a contour plot.

Value

An object of type nodeFillingOutput is produced.

• EW_locs EW coordinates for the contour plot.

• NS_locs NS coordinates for the contour plot.

• nodes Matrix of node locations.

• poly Matrix of vertices of boundary polygon.

• node_spacing Vertical and horizontal node spacing.

• hole_list List of polygons representing holes in region.

Author(s)

Ronald P. Barry

References

Ronald P. Barry, Julie McIntyre. Estimating animal densities and home range in regions with irregular boundaries and holes: A lattice-based alternative to the kernel density estimator. Ecological Modelling 222 (2011) 1666-1672. <doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.02.016>

Examples

plot.new()
data(polygon1)
nodeFillingOutput <- nodeFilling(poly=polygon1,node_spacing=0.02)
plot(nodeFillingOutput)
formLatticeOutput <- formLattice(nodeFillingOutput)
plot(formLatticeOutput)

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