getDEM: Download digital elevation model (DEM) by shapefile

In Issoufou-Liman/RTauDEM: Terrain Analysis Using Digital Elevation Models in R

Description

Takes a shapefile and download SRTM DEM covering the shapefile

Usage

getDEM(shp, path = "", fun, filename, ...)

Arguments

shp	SpatialPolygonsDataFrame shapefile from the sp package
path	Character. Path name indicating where to store the data. Default is the current working directory
fun	Function. E.g. mean, min, or max. Must be a function that accepts a 'na.rm' argument
filename	Character. Output filename (optional)
...	Additional required (!) parameters. These are data set specific. See Details
...	Arguments passed on to raster::mosaic x Raster* object y Raster* object

Value

a rater layer or a list of raster layers (if the shapefile covers several tiles).

Issoufou-Liman/RTauDEM documentation built on Oct. 30, 2019, 7:26 p.m.