fwDEM: dem processing

In rasterFW: raster and FWtools

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

rasterFW documentation built on May 2, 2019, 5:19 p.m.