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geoprofiler

Perpendicular Line Transects for Geosciences

Toolset to create perpendicular profile graphs and swath profiles. Method are based on coordinate rotation algorithm by Schaeben et al. (2024) <doi:10.1002/mma.9823>.

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# geoprofiler

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The goal of `{geoprofiler}` is to get distances along and across
user-defined profile lines or transects. This is useful to visualize the
distance-dependency of some variables in the geosciences.

![](man/figures/fig.png)

The concept of `{geoprofiler}` is a coordinate transformation of your
geo-coordinates into “profile coordinates”. These coordinates are the
distances along and across your profile.

## Installation

You must have R installed on your system (see
<https://www.r-project.org/>). To install `{geoprofiler}` from CRAN,
type the following code at the R command line prompt:

    install.packages("geoprofiler")

The most recent development version of `{geoprofiler}` is available from
from [GitHub](https://github.com/) and can be installed on your system
as follows:

``` r
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("tobiste/geoprofiler")
```

## Example

This is a basic example which shows you how to create a profile.

``` r
library(geoprofiler)
library(ggplot2)
#> Warning: package 'ggplot2' was built under R version 4.3.3
```

Import example data and transfer them into a `sf` object:

``` r
data(quakes)
quakes_sf <- sf::st_as_sf(quakes, coords = c("long", "lat"), crs = "WGS84")
```

Create a profile line from two known points:

``` r
profile <- data.frame(lon = c(160, -170), lat = c(-15, -30)) |>
  sf::st_as_sf(coords = c("lon", "lat"), crs = "WGS84") |>
  sf::st_shift_longitude() |>
  profile_line()
```

> Note: You can also create a profile line by a direction via
> `profile_points()`

Calculate the distances of all points along and across the profile line:

``` r
quakes_profile <- profile_coords(quakes_sf, profile = profile) |>
  dplyr::bind_cols(quakes_sf)
```

Finally, create your profile plot:

``` r
ggplot(quakes_profile, aes(X, depth, color = mag, size = abs(Y), alpha = abs(Y))) +
  geom_point() +
  scale_color_viridis_c("Richter magnitude", option = "A") +
  scale_size_continuous(bquote("Distance from profile (" * degree * ")"), range = c(3, .1)) +
  scale_alpha_continuous(bquote("Distance from profile (" * degree * ")"), range = c(1, .1)) +
  scale_y_reverse() +
  scale_x_continuous(guide = guide_axis(position = "top")) +
  labs(x = bquote("Distance along profile (" * degree * ")"), y = "Depth (km)") +
  theme_classic()
```

<img src="man/figures/README-plot-1.png" width="100%" />

The above example uses the `quakes` dataset giving the locations of 1000
seismic events of MB \> 4.0. The events occurred in a cube near Fiji
since 1964.

## Documentation

The detailed documentation can be found at
<https://tobiste.github.io/geoprofiler/articles/geoprofiler.html>

## Author

Tobias Stephan (<tstephan@lakeheadu.ca>)

## Feedback, issues, and contributions

I welcome feedback, suggestions, issues, and contributions! If you have
found a bug, please file it
[here](https://github.com/tobiste/geoprofiler/issues) with minimal code
to reproduce the issue.

## How to cite geoprofiler

When referencing this package, please cite the package DOI:
[10.32614/CRAN.package.geoprofiler](https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.geoprofiler).

## License

GPL-3.0 License

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