Message-ID: <072A17AB8F352A418FEE8CE1C1D4763B2D53C6A3@EXCHANGE.earthwatchewe.lan>
Date: 2012-10-01T01:48:09Z
From: Dan Bebber
Subject: nlme: spatial autocorrelation on a sphere
I have spatial data on a sphere (the Earth) for which I would like to run an gls model assuming that the errors are autcorrelated, i.e. including a corSpatial correlation in the model specification.
In this case the distance metric should be calculated on the sphere, therefore metric = "euclidean" in (for example) corSpher would be incorrect.
I would be grateful for help on how to write a new distance metric for the corSpatial function.
I believe there are several ways that distances on a sphere can be calculated in R, for example the "distMeeus" function in the geosphere library. However, I have no idea how to write this into a corSpatial function.
The aim is to end up with a metric = "sphere" option that calculates great circle distances between points using latitude and longitude.
Many thanks,
Dan