blasee/windfetch: Calculate Wind Fetch

Wind fetch is the unobstructed length of water over which wind can blow from a certain direction. The wind fetch is typically calculated for many directions around the compass rose for a given location, which can then be incorporated into a larger model, or simply averaged for a reasonable measure of the overall wind exposure for a specific location. The process of calculating wind fetch can be tedious, particularly if a large number of fetch vectors are required at many locations. The 'windfetch' package calculates wind fetch and summarises the information efficiently. There is also a plot method to help visualise the wind exposure at the various locations, and it's easy to write out to a shape file for further investigation.

install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("blasee/windfetch")