title: How do you calculate the area of a series of random points?
body: <p>So I'm working on a piece of code to take positional data for a RC Plane Crop Duster and compute the total surface area transversed (without double counting any area). I cannot figure out how to calculate the area for a given period of operation. </p>
  
  <p>Given the following Table Calculate the area the points cover.</p>
  
  <pre><code>x,y
  1,2
  1,5
  4,3
  6,6
  3,4
  3,1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any Ideas? I've browsed Greens Theorem and I'm left without a practical concept in which to code.  </p>
  
  <p>Thanks for any advise</p>