geo.buffer {spatialEco}

Buffer geographic data

Description

Buffers data in geographic (Latitude/Longitude) projection

Usage

geo.buffer(x, r, ...)

Arguments

x

A sf or sp vector class object

r

Buffer radius in meters

...

Additional arguments passed to sf::st_buffer

Details

Projects (Latitude/Longitude) data in decimal-degree geographic projection using an on-the-fly azimuthal equidistant projection in meters centered on

Value

an sp or sf polygon class object representing buffer for each feature

Author(s)

Jeffrey S. Evans <[e-mail]>

See Also

st_buffer for st_buffer ... arguments

Examples

library(sf)
e <- c(61.87125, 23.90153, 76.64458, 37.27042)
  names(e) <- c("xmin", "ymin", "xmax", "ymax")
  s <- st_as_sf(st_sample(st_as_sfc(st_bbox(e)), size=100, 
                 type = "regular"))
	st_crs(s) <- st_crs(4326)
      s$id <- 1:nrow(s)

b <- geo.buffer(x=s, r=1000)
  plot(st_geometry(b[1,]))
     plot(st_geometry(s[1,]), pch=20,cex=2, add=TRUE)