distaz function

Distance and Azimuth from two points

Distance and Azimuth from two points

Calculate distance, Azimuth and Back-Azimuth from two points on Globe.

distaz(olat, olon, tlat, tlon)

Arguments

  • olat: origin latitude, degrees
  • olon: origin longitude, degrees
  • tlat: target latitude, degrees
  • tlon: target longitude, degrees

Returns

List: - del: Delta, angle in degrees

  • az: Azimuth, angle in degrees

  • baz: back Azimuth, (az+180) in degrees

  • dist: distance in km

  • err: 0 or 1, error flag. 0=error, 1=no error, see details

Details

Program is set up for one origin (olat, olon) pair and many target (tlat, tlon) pairs given as vectors.

If multiple olat and olon are given, the program returns a list of outputs for each.

If olat or any tlat is greater than 90 or less than -90 NA is returned and error flag is 0.

If any tlat and tlon is equal to olat and olon, the points are coincident. In that case the distances are set to zero, but the az and baz are NA, and the error flag is set to 0.

Author(s)

Jonathan M. Leesjonathan.lees@unc.edu

See Also

along.great, getgreatarc

Examples

#### one point d = distaz(12, 23, -32, -65) d #### many random target points org = c(80.222, -100.940) targ = cbind(runif(10, 10, 50), runif(10, 20, 100)) distaz(org[1], org[2], targ[,1], targ[,2]) ############ if origin and target are identical ##### the distance is zero, but the az and baz are not defined distaz(80.222, -100.940, 80.222, -100.940) ######################## set one of the targets equal to the origin targ[7,1] = org[1] targ[7,2] = org[2] distaz(org[1], org[2], targ[,1], targ[,2]) #### put in erroneous latitude data targ[3,1] = -91.3 distaz(org[1], org[2], targ[,1], targ[,2])
  • Maintainer: Jonathan M. Lees
  • License: GPL (>= 2)
  • Last published: 2024-07-09

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