fwDEM: dem processing

In rasterExt: raster and external programs (FWtools, ArcGIS)

Description

Derive slope, aspect, etcetera from an elevation raster (elevation rasters are sometimes referred to with the awkward term "DEM", or "digigal elevation model")

Usage

fwDEM(dem, type='slope', filename="", options=NULL, format='GTiff')

Arguments

dem	filename, RasterLayer, or SpatialGridDataFrame. If the object has multiple layers, the first is assumed to have the elevation data
type	Character. One of: "hillshade", "slope", "aspect", "color-relief", "TRI", "TPI", "roughness"
filename	Character. Output filename (optional)
options	options. See http://www.gdal.org/gdaldem.html
format	Character. GDAL format code

Value

RasterLayer

Author(s)

Lyndon Estes and Robert J. Hijmans

See Also

http://www.gdal.org/gdaldem.html

rasterExt documentation built on May 2, 2019, 4:49 p.m.