labcon: Labelling Connected Features
In ClementCalenge/adehabitat: Analysis of Habitat Selection by Animals

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This function attributes unique labels to pixels belonging to connected features on a map of class asc.

labcon(x)

`x`	an object of class `asc`

Returns a matrix of class asc, of type "factor", with a number of levels equals to the number of connected components

Clement Calenge clement.calenge@oncfs.gouv.fr

asc for further information on the class asc

data(puechabon)
hr <- getsahrlocs(puechabon$sahr, "hr")
u <- getkasc(hr, "Jean")
image(u)

## numbering of the connected components
p <- labcon(u)
nlevels(p)
image(p)

##  stores the first component
c1 <- p
c1[c1 != 1] <- NA
image(c1)

##  stores the second component
c2 <- p
c2[c2 != 2] <- NA
image(c2)