Calculate distances between successive localizations

Gets the euclidean distance between consecutive localization in a coordinate reference system in metres, i.e., UTM systems.

Usage

atl_simple_dist(data, x = "x", y = "y", lag = 1)

Arguments

data

A dataframe object of or extending the class data.frame, which must contain two coordinate columns for the X and Y coordinates.

x

A column name in a data.frame object that contains the numeric X coordinate.

y

A column name in a data.frame object that contains the numeric Y coordinate.

lag

The lag (in number of localizations) over which to calculate distance

Value

Returns a vector of distances between consecutive points.

Author

Pratik R. Gupte & Allert Bijleveld