lakeMinorAxisLength {lakemorpho}

Calculate the length of the minor axis for lake

Description

Minor axis length is defined as the minimum length spanning the convex hull of a lake.

Usage

lakeMinorAxisLength(inLakeMorpho, addLine = TRUE)

Arguments

inLakeMorpho

An object of lakeMorphoClass. Output of the lakeSurroundTopo function would be appropriate as input

addLine

Boolean to determine if the selected minor axis line should be added to the inLakeMorpho object. Defaults to True

Value

This returns a numeric value indicating the length of the minor axis in the lake. Units are the same as the input data.

References

Wikipedia

Examples

data(lakes)
lakeMinorAxisLength(inputLM)