While fitting the VAST model to the summer flounder data a few things jumped out. There seems to be a rogue inland sample data point (Chesapeake Bay?). I went ahead and filtered this out. Though it made me wonder about what our spatial domain should be and if we should go with something slightly different than the default VAST northwest Atl grid, which extends into areas now regularly surveyed by the SEFSC. Image below for reference -- black points are the default VAST northwest Atl grid, the red points are the sample data. For this PR, I grabbed a NOAA NEFSC bottom trawl survey polygon and used that as our domain. The shapefile is here, though happy to use something else if it is more appropriate.
While fitting the VAST model to the summer flounder data a few things jumped out. There seems to be a rogue inland sample data point (Chesapeake Bay?). I went ahead and filtered this out. Though it made me wonder about what our spatial domain should be and if we should go with something slightly different than the default VAST northwest Atl grid, which extends into areas now regularly surveyed by the SEFSC. Image below for reference -- black points are the default VAST northwest Atl grid, the red points are the sample data. For this PR, I grabbed a NOAA NEFSC bottom trawl survey polygon and used that as our domain. The shapefile is here, though happy to use something else if it is more appropriate.