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rasterToContour

Raster to contour lines conversion


Description

RasterLayer to contour lines. This is a wrapper around contourLines

Usage

rasterToContour(x, maxpixels=100000, ...)

Arguments

x

a RasterLayer object

maxpixels

Maximum number of raster cells to use; this function fails when too many cells are used

...

Any argument that can be passed to contourLines

Details

Most of the code was taken from maptools::ContourLines2SLDF, by Roger Bivand & Edzer Pebesma

Value

SpatialLinesDataFrame

Examples

f <- system.file("external/test.grd", package="raster")
r <- raster(f)
x <- rasterToContour(r)
class(x)
plot(r)
plot(x, add=TRUE)

raster

Geographic Data Analysis and Modeling

v3.4-10
GPL (>= 3)
Authors
Robert J. Hijmans [cre, aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5872-2872>), Jacob van Etten [ctb], Michael Sumner [ctb], Joe Cheng [ctb], Dan Baston [ctb], Andrew Bevan [ctb], Roger Bivand [ctb], Lorenzo Busetto [ctb], Mort Canty [ctb], Ben Fasoli [ctb], David Forrest [ctb], Aniruddha Ghosh [ctb], Duncan Golicher [ctb], Josh Gray [ctb], Jonathan A. Greenberg [ctb], Paul Hiemstra [ctb], Kassel Hingee [ctb], Institute for Mathematics Applied Geosciences [cph], Charles Karney [ctb], Matteo Mattiuzzi [ctb], Steven Mosher [ctb], Babak Naimi [ctb], Jakub Nowosad [ctb], Edzer Pebesma [ctb], Oscar Perpinan Lamigueiro [ctb], Etienne B. Racine [ctb], Barry Rowlingson [ctb], Ashton Shortridge [ctb], Bill Venables [ctb], Rafael Wueest [ctb]
Initial release
2021-05-02

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