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Bubble plot on shapefile - projection issues?

2 messages · Tim Clark, Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal

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Dear R help list,
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I am working on some data from a study on the habitat use and movement patterns of fish using a marine protected area in Hawaii.? We have a number of acoustic receivers in a MPA, and any time a tagged fish passes within range it records the date and time of detection.? I am trying to make bubble plots?showing the number of detections for each fish at each receiver.? I have been able to get it to work using a map generated from GSHHS data (Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, Highresolution Shoreline) but the map data is not of high enough resolution.? Instead I am trying to plot the data on a shapefile, but I can't find out how to project the shapefile correctly to match up with the data.? I know my shapefile is in NAD 1983 UTM Zone 4N and my data is in WSG84.? How do I change the projections to make them line up?? I tried mapproj but couldn't get it to work.? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.?
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My code is below.? I have also attached the shapefile and my data.
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Thanks in advance for your help.
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Aloha,
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Tim
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#Read ESRI shapefiles
library(maptools)
library (PBSmapping)
setwd("E:/Telemetry_research/Kealakekua Bay MPA study/R bubble plot")
hawaii.coast<- read.shape("coast_n83.shp")
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#Read data and convert to event data
? mydat<-read.table("my.event", header=TRUE)
? my.event<-as.EventData(mydat,projection="LL")
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#Calculate bubble size
? detects<-mydat$Detections
? max.symbol.size=10
? min.symbol.size=1
? bubble.size <- (detects-min(detects))/((max(detects)+.0001)-min(detects))*(max.symbol.size-min.symbol.size)+min.symbol.size????? #Calculates bubble size as a range between min and max.? 0.0001 added to avoid division by zero if only one sample.
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#Plot of all Hawaiii showing point data somewhere to the south.? Needs projcting?
plot(hawaii.coast,xlab="Longitude",ylab="Latitude",main="Kealakekua Bay")
addPoints(my.event, pch=19 ,col="red",cex=500)
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#Plot of location where point data should be
plot(hawaii.coast,xlim=c(820000, 824000), ylim=c(2154000, 2158000),xlab="Longitude",ylab="Latitude",main="Kealakekua Bay")



      
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Use the "bubble" command in gstat.

-Roy M.
On Jan 9, 2009, at 5:58 PM, t c wrote:

            
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