R package gdistance: Distances and routes on geographical grids

The R package gdistance provides classes and functions to calculate various distance measures and routes in heterogeneous geographic spaces represented as grids. Least-cost distances as well as more complex distances based on (constrained) random walks can be calculated. Also the corresponding rout...

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Autor principal: Etten, Jacob van
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Foundation for Open Access Statistic 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/83180
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description The R package gdistance provides classes and functions to calculate various distance measures and routes in heterogeneous geographic spaces represented as grids. Least-cost distances as well as more complex distances based on (constrained) random walks can be calculated. Also the corresponding routes or probabilities of passing each cell can be determined. The package implements classes to store the data about the probability or cost of transitioning from one cell to another on a grid in a memory-efficient sparse format. These classes make it possible to manipulate the values of cell-to-cell movement directly, which offers flexibility and the possibility to use asymmetric values. The novel distances implemented in the package are used in geographical genetics (applying circuit theory), but also have applications in other fields of geospatial analysis.
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spelling CGSpace831802025-11-12T05:43:49Z R package gdistance: Distances and routes on geographical grids Etten, Jacob van measurements length geographical regions computer applications The R package gdistance provides classes and functions to calculate various distance measures and routes in heterogeneous geographic spaces represented as grids. Least-cost distances as well as more complex distances based on (constrained) random walks can be calculated. Also the corresponding routes or probabilities of passing each cell can be determined. The package implements classes to store the data about the probability or cost of transitioning from one cell to another on a grid in a memory-efficient sparse format. These classes make it possible to manipulate the values of cell-to-cell movement directly, which offers flexibility and the possibility to use asymmetric values. The novel distances implemented in the package are used in geographical genetics (applying circuit theory), but also have applications in other fields of geospatial analysis. 2017 2017-08-22T13:48:46Z 2017-08-22T13:48:46Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/83180 en Open Access application/pdf Foundation for Open Access Statistic van Etten, J. (2017) R package gdistance: Distances and routes on geographical grids. Journal of Statistical Software 76(13) v076i13 ISSN: 1548-7660
spellingShingle measurements
length
geographical regions
computer applications
Etten, Jacob van
R package gdistance: Distances and routes on geographical grids
title R package gdistance: Distances and routes on geographical grids
title_full R package gdistance: Distances and routes on geographical grids
title_fullStr R package gdistance: Distances and routes on geographical grids
title_full_unstemmed R package gdistance: Distances and routes on geographical grids
title_short R package gdistance: Distances and routes on geographical grids
title_sort r package gdistance distances and routes on geographical grids
topic measurements
length
geographical regions
computer applications
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/83180
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