dividing coastline into equal interval
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Hello, I needed to divide the coastline into equal interval (as shown in the image) and identify latitude and longitude of each segments of these coastline.
Basically, for each of these segment, I wish to count the frequency of storms hitting/year.
For this, I did the following:
coastlines = load('C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2024a\toolbox\map\mapdata\coastlines.mat');
LatLimit = [15 44]; LonLimit = [60 104];
X = coastlines.coastlat((coastlines.coastlat >= LatLimit(1,1) & coastlines.coastlat <= LatLimit(1,2)),:);
Y = coastlines.coastlon((coastlines.coastlon >= LonLimit(1,1) & coastlines.coastlon <= LonLimit(1,2)),:);
However, I am unable to divide it each segmentwise, considering linear distance interval of say, 50 km and identify latitude-longitudes within those segments. Any help in this regard is deeply appreciable.

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Walter Roberson
2025-2-6
See John D'Errico's File Exchange contribution interparc https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/34874-interparc which is designed for interpolating curves at fixed distances traveled.
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Walter Roberson
2025-2-7
I said "assuming that the coast is continuous". It appears that works for your situation. It would be a nuisance if it did not, partly because it would not be defined what distance should be measured over any jump in the coast.
Walter Roberson
2025-2-7
Looking at the map, I am not certain that using Euclidean approximation of the total distance would be good enough for your purposes. On the other hand, interparc expects Euclidean coordinates I expect.
You might need to convert map coordinates to some kind of linear coordinates before using interparc
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