createLandwatermask {sperich}

Land-Water-Mask Creation

Description

This function creates a land-water-mask as a grid based on given dimension and coordinates.

Usage

createLandwatermask(dataset.landwater, dimension, origin, resolution=1)

Arguments

dataset.landwater

A dataset containing the percentage of land on a cell of a grid. The coordinates of the cell should be given as longitude (named: long) and lattude (named: lat) and the percentage of land shoud be named landsum. If the value of 'dataset.landwater' is 'NULL', a grid containing only land-cells will be created.

dimension

The dimension of the processed grid.

origin

The geographic coordinates of the origin of the grid.

resolution

The resolution of the grid in (geographical) degree.

Details

This routine creates a land-water-mask as a grid. As Input a dataset with land-water-information is needed. The grid will be created with a given dimension.

Value

This function returns a grid which contains the land-water information of the observed area. The value of cells containing land is 0, the value of water-cells is -1.

Author(s)

Maximilian Lange, Sven Lautenbach

Examples

##load data
data(dataset.all.species)
data(dataset.landwater)

##create grid parameters
dimension <- getDimension(dataset.all.species, resolution=1)
origin <- getOrigin(dataset.all.species)

##create landwatermask
landwatermask.nocoast <- createLandwatermask(dataset.landwater, 
					dimension, origin, resolution=1)