distance from point within a polygon to polygon edge
I am working with a huge area, 7 states of forest and nonforest using the NLCD data. Within some of the forested areas is a plot (this is my master's thesis I am working on). I have stumped everyone I have asked with this large dataset but we are certain there is a resolution out there. The forest/nonforest area is a signed and discrete raster. I was able to make the forested area into polygons by subsetting out the forested area. I am not able to make the nonforest area into polygons (too large). So I was trying to get point distance (the point is within the polygon) to the edge of the