
It is often said that if Wales was flattened out it would have an area bigger than England. This function computes the surface area for a raster with elevation values, taking into account the sloping nature of the surface.
# S4 method for SpatRaster
surfArea(x, filename="", ...)
SpatRaster
SpatRaster with elevation values. Currently the raster CRS must be planar and have the same distance units (e.g. m) as the elevation values
character. Output filename
additional arguments for writing files as in writeRaster
Barry Rowlingson
Jenness, Jeff S., 2004. Calculating Landscape Surface Area from Digital Elevation Models. Wildlife Society Bulletin 32(3): 829-839
expanse
, cellSize
v <- rast(volcano, crs="local")
x <- terra::surfArea(v)
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