roads-package {roads}R Documentation

roads: Road Network Projection

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Iterative least cost path and minimum spanning tree methods for projecting forest road networks. The methods connect a set of target points to an existing road network using igraph https://igraph.org to identify least cost routes. The cost of constructing a road segment between adjacent pixels is determined by a user supplied 'weightRaster' and a 'weightFunction'; options include the average of adjacent 'weightRaster' values, and a function of the elevation differences between adjacent cells that penalizes steep grades. These road network projection methods are intended for integration into R workflows and modelling frameworks used for forecasting forest change, and can be applied over multiple timesteps without rebuilding a graph at each timestep.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Sarah Endicott sarah.endicott@ec.gc.ca (ORCID)

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[Package roads version 1.2.0 Index]