lat2rA: Rectangle area at latitude

In geoextras: Extras for the 'geo' package

Description

Statistical rectangle area at a given latitude

Usage

lat2rA(lat, scale = "km")

Arguments

lat	Latitude
scale	km is the default returns area in square kilometers, any other value returs area in square nmi.

Value

Approximate area of standard statistical rectangle at latitute

Note

Care needs to be taken to give rectangle center latitudes

Author(s)

STJ

See Also

rA which gets the rectangle area from the rectangle code.

Examples

##---- Should be DIRECTLY executable !! ----
##-- ==>  Define data, use random,
##--	or do  help(data=index)  for the standard data sets.

## The function is currently defined as
"lat2rA"

geoextras documentation built on May 2, 2019, 5:56 p.m.