[FEA] Compute the area of polygons.

[thomcom]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Presently users must convert their Polygons and MultiPolygons to geopandas in order to compute their areas.

Describe the solution you'd like It would be pretty easy to add area computations: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1165647/how-to-determine-if-a-list-of-polygon-points-are-in-clockwise-order

The method is very simple, and be useful as Jianting mentions: https://github.com/rapidsai/cuspatial/pull/609#issuecomment-1227420074

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