merge_consecutive_trips: Merge short intervalled trips

In WorldFishCenter/peskas.timor.data.pipeline: Functions to Implement the Timor Small Scale Fisheries Data Pipeline

Merge short intervalled trips

Description

PDS data are quite patchy, sometimes an actual single trip is recorded as 2 different trips. This function calculates the temporal and the geographical distance between two consecutive trips for each boat, merging those consecutive trips that start before 180 minutes from the following within a range of 2 km.

Usage

merge_consecutive_trips(
  x,
  consecutive_time = NULL,
  consecutive_distance = NULL
)

Arguments

x	A data frame containing raw pds trips data.
consecutive_time	Time between consecutive trips (hrs).
consecutive_distance	Distance between consecutive trips (Km).

Value

A dataframe with pds trips including a new column associated_to indicating the consecutive trips to be merged.

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