S4 generic method to generate an instance of a design

Uses the survey design details in the design class to generate a set of transects, i.e. a single survey.

Usage

generate.transects(object, quiet = FALSE, ...)

# S4 method for class 'Line.Transect.Design'
generate.transects(object, quiet = FALSE, ...)

# S4 method for class 'Point.Transect.Design'
generate.transects(object, quiet = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

object: an object which inherits from class Survey.Design
quiet: if TRUE silences some warnings
...: optional arguments used for internal calls

Value

an object of class Transect

Details

The transects are returned within an object of class Transect which records some of the design options used to generate it along with the samplers as an sf object of class 'POINT' or 'LINESTRING'/'MULTILINESTRING'. The Transect object also contains the covered areas as a 'POLYGON' or 'MULTIPOLYGON' sf object.

Author

L Marshall

Examples

#Point transect example
shapefile.name <- system.file("extdata", "TrackExample.shp", package = "dssd")
region <- make.region(region.name = "study area",
                     shape = shapefile.name)
design <- make.design(region = region,
                      transect.type = "point",
                      design = "random",
                      samplers = 25,
                      design.angle = 45,
                      edge.protocol = "minus",
                      truncation = 3)
# Generate a single survey instance
survey <- generate.transects(design)
plot(region, survey, covered.area = TRUE)


#Line transect example
# Define the design
design <- make.design(region = region,
                      transect.type = "line",
                      design = c("systematic"),
                      line.length = 1000,
                      design.angle = c(179),
                      edge.protocol = "minus",
                      truncation = 1)

# Create a single set of transects to check
survey <- generate.transects(design)
plot(region, survey, covered.area = TRUE)