basindelin_big: Delineates hydrological basins for large datasets

In ilyamaclean/ecohydrotools: hydrogical modelling for ecological applications with R

Description

basindelin_big is for use with large digital elevation datasets, to delineate hydrological basins.

Usage

basindelin_big(dem, dirout = NA, trace = TRUE)

Arguments

dem	a raster object of elevations.
dirout	an optional character vector containing a single path directory for temporarily storing tiles. Deleted after use. Tilde expansion (see path.expand()) is done.
trace	a logical value indicating whether to plot and report on progress.

Details

basindelin_big divides the large dataset into tiles and then uses basindelin() to delineate basins for each tile before mosaicing back together and merging basins along tile edges if not seperated by a boundary

1. If dirout is unspecified, then a directory basinsout is temporarily created within the working directory. If trace is TRUE (the default) then progress is tracked during three stages: (1) the basins of each tile are plotted, (2) basins after mosaicing, but prior to merging are plotted and (3) on each merge iteration, the number of basins to merge is printed and processed basin is plotted.

Value

a raster object with individual basins numbered sequentially as integers.

See Also

basindelin() for working with smaller datasets.

Examples

basins <- basindelin_big(dtm1m)
plot(basins, main = "Basins")

ilyamaclean/ecohydrotools documentation built on June 10, 2019, 5:45 a.m.