Altitudes: Altitudes

In Dmirandae/geocleaMT-1: A Package to Clean/Test Georeferenced Data

Description

Elevation data for the North Andes Block with a resolution of 0.1 decimal degrees. Three columns decimalLongitude, decimalLatitude and elevation. The North Andes Block was divided each 0.1 decimal degree, the elevations associated to each 0.1 decimal degree were extracted using the elevFromGg function. This elevation was downloaded from The Google Maps Elevation API [1] and was used for the example in R-Alarcon and Miranda-Esquivel (submitted) [2].

Usage

data(Altitudes)

Format

A data frame with 28063 observations on the following 3 variables: decimalLatitude, decimalLongitude and elevation.

References

[1] R-Alarcon V. and Miranda-Esquivel DR.(submitted) geocleaMT: An R package to cleaning geographical data from electronic biodatabases.

[2] The Google Maps Elevation API. Available online at https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/elevation/intro

Examples

data(Altitudes)
str(Altitudes)
data(America)
coordinates(Altitudes) <- Altitudes[, c('decimalLongitude', 'decimalLatitude')]
plot(America)
plot(Altitudes, add=T)

Dmirandae/geocleaMT-1 documentation built on Nov. 18, 2019, 6:26 p.m.