Package 'GeoDensityR'

Generate Density Raster from Polygon and Tabular Data

Description

Creates a continuous density raster surface by joining vector spatial layers with tabular data frameworks, normalizing values by ellipsoidal polygon area calculations.

Usage

generate_density_raster(
  spatial_target,
  attribute_table,
  join_spatial,
  join_attribute,
  value_col,
  resolution = 0.1,
  output = NULL
)

Arguments

spatial_target	A terra::SpatVector, sf::sf object, or a path string to a shapefile.
attribute_table	A data.frame, tibble, or path string to a CSV file.
join_spatial	Character. The indexing key column found within the spatial vector object.
join_attribute	Character. The indexing key column found within the attribute table.
value_col	Character. Numeric column containing values to evaluate for density calculation.
resolution	Numeric. The cell size resolution for the generated target output raster template.
output	Optional character. A target filepath string (.tif or .asc) to write the raster to disk.

Value

A terra::SpatRaster object representing computed density surfaces.

Examples

## Not run: 
# Example using in-memory data frames and vectors
result <- generate_density_raster(
  spatial_target = standard_polygon_object,
  attribute_table = census_dataframe,
  join_spatial = "District_ID",
  join_attribute = "ID",
  value_col = "Population",
  resolution = 0.05
)

## End(Not run)

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