petrel {spm}

A dataset of seabed sediments in the Petrel sub-basin in Australia Exclusive Economic Zone

Description

This dataset contains 237 samples of 9 variables including longitude (long), latitude (lat), mud content (mud), sand content (sand), gravel content (gravel), bathymetry (bathy), disttance to coast (dist), seabe relief (relief), seabed slope (slope).

Usage

data("petrel")

Format

A data frame with 237 observations on the following 9 variables.

long

a numeric vector, decimal degree

lat

a numeric vector, decimal degree

mud

a numeric vector, percentage

sand

a numeric vector, percentage

gravel

a numeric vector, percentage

bathy

a numeric vector, meter bellow sea level

dist

a numeric vector, degree

relief

a numeric vector, meter

slope

a numeric vector, no unit

Details

For details, please check the reference.

Source

Li, J., 2013. Predicting the spatial distribution of seabed gravel content using random forest, spatial interpolation methods and their hybrid methods, The International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM) 2013: Adelaide, pp. 394-400.