island documentation
island is a logical function for determing whether a geolocation corresponds to land or water. (That's is land, not island!)
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Syntax
tf = island(lat,lon)
Description
tf = island(lat,lon) uses a 1/8 degree resolution global land mask to determine whether the geographic location(s) given by lat,lon correspond to land or water. Output is true for land locations, false otherwise.
Example
This example uses cdtgrid to create a 1x2 degree resolution grid, and we'll get some z values from Matlab's built-in example peaks function:
% Create a sample grid, 1 degree (lat) by 2 degree (lon) resolution: [lat,lon] = cdtgrid([1 2]); % Some sample z data: z = topo_interp(lat,lon); % Plot the full grid: imagescn(lon,lat,z) hold on borders
Mask-out land values by setting them to NaN:
% Determine which grid points correspond to land: land = island(lat,lon); % Set land values to NaN: z(land) = NaN; % Plot the masked dataset: figure imagescn(lon,lat,z) hold on borders
