[AniMov] Adehabitat - kernelUD function

[Clément Calenge]

Hi Leslie,

> Hi - 
> I have been using Adehabitat to estimate home ranges with
> the kernelUD function. I used a 30 meter DEM for my grid 
> and would like to export the pixel values, merge them with other
> covariates of the same format and use them in another package in R.
> Specifically, I am interested in the z -values for each pixel within 
> the 30 meter DEM file. Could someone tell me how to extract 
> and export the results for each pixel? 
>   

The map of the UD of animal i is stored in the component $UD of the 
component i of the object returned by the function kernelUD. For example 
(just copy and paste in R):

data(puechabon)
DEM <- getkasc(puechabon$kasc,1)
locs <- puechabon$locs

## estimates the UD for each animal
kud <- kernelUD(locs[,c("X","Y")], locs$Names, grid=DEM)

## For the first animal (Brock), the UD is stored in the component
## UD of the first component of the list:
mapUDBrock <- kud[[1]]$UD
image(mapUDBrock)

## this map can be exported toward a GIS thanks to export.asc.
## It can be converted to SpatialPixelsDataFrame (package sp)
## thanks to asc2spixdf()

## alternatively, you can export the UD maps for all animals:
allUD <- as.kasc(lapply(kud, function(x) x$UD))

## It can be converted to SpatialPixelsDataFrame (package sp)
## thanks to kasc2spixdf()

Hope this helps,

Clément.