| worldLLhigh {PBSmapping} | R Documentation |
PolySet of polygons for the global shorelines.
data(worldLLhigh)
Data frame consisting of 4 columns: PID = primary polygon ID,
POS = position of each vertex within a given polygon, X
= longitude coordinate, and Y = latitude coordinate. Attributes:
projection = "LL".
In R, the data must be loaded using the data function.
In S, the data are loaded automatically on demand.
Polygon data from the GSHHS (Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shoreline) database.
We thinned the full resolution GSHHS binary data with a tolerance of
1.0 km and then converted it to ASCII data using the supplied
software (gshhs_dp.exe and gshhs.exe, respectively).
Using a Perl script (gshhs2r.pl), we then converted this ASCII
format to ours, removed the lakes, islands in lakes, and ponds in
islands, and filtered out any islands with fewer than 15
vertices.
Wessel, P., and W.H.F. Smith. 1996. A global, self-consistent,
hierarchical, high-resolution shoreline database, Journal of
Geophysical Research 101: 8741-8743.
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/pwessel_pubs.html
addPolys,
clipPolys,
plotPolys,
plotMap,
PolySet,
thickenPolys,
thinPolys,
worldLL.