marmap: A Package for Importing, Plotting and Analyzing Bathymetric and Topographic Data in R

In this communication we introduce marmap, a package designed for downloading, plotting and manipulating bathymetric and topographic data in R. marmap can query the ETOPO1 bathymetry and topography database hosted by the NOAA, use simple latitude-longitude-depth data in ascii format, and take advantage of the advanced plotting tools available in R to build publication-quality bathymetric maps. Functions to query data (bathymetry, sampling information…) are available interactively by clicking on marmap maps. Bathymetric and topographic data can also be used to calculate projected surface areas within specified depth/altitude intervals, and constrain the calculation of realistic shortest path distances. Such information can be used in molecular ecology, for example, to evaluate genetic isolation by distance in a spatially-explicit framework.

• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  PLoS ONE

• Publication date

  2013-09-03

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics, Computer Science, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0073051PMID 24019892PMCID 3760912
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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