lakeShorelineDevelopment

Shoreline development is a measure of the complexity of the lake shoreline. 
It is simply the ratio of the shoreline length (i.e. perimeter) to the 
perimeter of an equally sized circle.

Lake morphometry metrics are used by limnologists to understand,
among other things, the ecological processes in a lake. Traditionally, these
metrics are calculated by hand, with planimeters, and increasingly with
commercial GIS products. All of these methods work; however, they are either
outdated, difficult to reproduce, or require expensive licenses to use. The
'lakemorpho' package provides the tools to calculate a typical suite
of these metrics from an input elevation model and lake polygon. The metrics
currently supported are: fetch, major axis, minor axis, major/minor axis
ratio, maximum length, maximum width, mean width, maximum depth, mean depth,
shoreline development, shoreline length, surface area, and volume.

Jeffrey W Hollister

lakemorpho

Lake Morphometry Metrics

Jeffrey W. Hollister

Jemma Stachelek

lakeShorelineDevelopment function

<dl><dt>inLakeMorpho</dt>
<dd>An object of <code>lakeMorphoClass</code>. Output of the 
<code>lakeSurroundTopo</code> function would be appropriate as input</dd></dl>

Arguments

Function to calculate shoreline development — lakeShorelineDevelopment

<dl>

<dt>inLakeMorpho</dt>
<dd>An object of <code>lakeMorphoClass</code>. Output of the 
<code>lakeSurroundTopo</code> function would be appropriate as input</dd>

</dl>

lakeShorelineDevelopment: Function to calculate shoreline development

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