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brophymj
Quartz | Level 8

I have sas/stat and sas foundations but not sas/iml

I'm trying to find the area for an irregular polygon. My dataset consists of many points but the example below contains just 8 coordinates.

Is there a good algorithm available for doing this? Ideally generalizing it so that it can apply to potentially 100s of points.

data coord;

input x 1. y 1.;

datalines;

14

31

53

87

79

58

47

25

run;

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ballardw
Super User

This paper may provide a starting point. http://www.caloxy.com/papers/52-DataX_gis_poster.pdf

It has a few pages worth of code to do this and find "interior" points. The code dates from the 80's and doesn't use proc gis or similar.

Understanding the code may be a learning exercise.

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