hillShade: Hill shading

In raster: Geographic Data Analysis and Modeling

Description

Compute hill shade from slope and aspect layers (both in radians). Slope and aspect can be computed with function terrain.

A hill shade layer is often used as a backdrop on top of which another, semi-transparent, layer is drawn.

Usage

hillShade(slope, aspect, angle=45, direction=0, filename='', normalize=FALSE, ...)  

Arguments

slope	RasterLayer object with slope values (in radians)
aspect	RasterLayer object with aspect values (in radians)
angle	The the elevation angle of the light source (sun), in degrees
direction	The direction (azimuth) angle of the light source (sun), in degrees
filename	Character. Optional filename
normalize	Logical. If TRUE, values below zero are set to zero and the results are multiplied with 255
...	Standard additional arguments for writing RasterLayer files

Author(s)

Andrew Bevan, Robert J. Hijmans

References

Horn, B.K.P., 1981. Hill shading and the reflectance map. Proceedings of the IEEE 69(1):14-47

See Also

terrain

Examples

## Not run: 
alt <- getData('alt', country='CHE')
slope <- terrain(alt, opt='slope')
aspect <- terrain(alt, opt='aspect')
hill <- hillShade(slope, aspect, 40, 270)
plot(hill, col=grey(0:100/100), legend=FALSE, main='Switzerland')
plot(alt, col=rainbow(25, alpha=0.35), add=TRUE)

## End(Not run)

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