environmentaltools.common.find_nearest_point
- environmentaltools.common.find_nearest_point(data, point: tuple)[source]
Find the nearest point in a spatial dataset to a given coordinate.
Uses Euclidean distance to identify the closest point in the dataset to the specified target coordinates.
- Parameters:
data (xr.Dataset or pd.DataFrame) – Dataset with ‘x’ and ‘y’ coordinates.
point (tuple) – Target point coordinates as (x, y).
- Returns:
Index of the nearest point in the dataset.
- Return type:
int