At first I want to show how you can make simple maps with R. Furthermore I want to demonstrate one important function from the package “gdalUtils”, which contains wrappers for the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) Utilities. I will rasterize a vector with the function gdal_rasterize, because it is quite fast for
Brief information: These days GRASS GIS 7.0.0 has been released!
This major release took more than six years for the GRASS team to develop. They have done great work and built in more than 10,500 fixes and improvements. Version 7.0.0 will also enjoy long-term support.
Now there is a considerable
Hey out there!
I thought it would be quite nice to give you some interesting/entertaining links once every week.
The content will not only be GIS-related, but be in a more broader section around geoinformatics.
This week:
– Most of the time you are classifying with the NDVI? Have a look at Read More
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today we are going to have a look at the {raster} package for R. I will show you some of the functions of this package applied on Landsat 8 satellite imagery downloaded from the USGS Earthexplorer .
1. Install package and read in data
First we have to install the
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Today I will show how powerful the R {raster} package is on another example. The raster package is not only a great tool for raster processing and calculation but also very useful for data acquisition. With the function getData() you can download the following data directly into R and process
Probably you already know:
QGIS 2.8 (Wien) has been released last friday!
2.8 is a long term release (LTR) version, that means it will be supported with updates for the next year.
As a stable and less frequently changing platform it should especially be interesting for use in enterprises/organisations who
The aim of this topic is to deal with spatial data and open data in R. The first task is to read and plot the border of the government of vienna. Furthermore we will use open data to plot a particular area of interest.
The package rdgal provides some import functions