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Claraview.png IS415 GeoSpatial Analytics and Applications

About

Weekly Session

Take-home Exercises

Geospatial Analytics Project

Course Resources

 


Geospatial Data Handling in R,

Content

  • Properties of geographical data
  • Classes for geospatial data in R
  • Simple features data in R
  • Georeferencing
  • Using R as a GIS


Must do

  • Read Chapter 2, 3, 8, 9, 10 of Gimond, M. (2018) Intro to GIS and Spatial Analysis [1]


R Packages for Spatial Data Handling

Pebesma, Edzer. (2018) “Simple Features for R: Standardized Support for Spatial Vector Data.” The R Journal, Vol. 10/1, 439:446. [2]

Pebesma, Z. (2018) sf: Simple Features for R [3]

Pebesma, Edzer, and Roger Bivand. 2018. sp: Classes and Methods for Spatial Data. [4]

Bivand, Roger, Tim Keitt, and Barry Rowlingson. 2018. rgdal: Bindings for the ’Geospatial’ Data Abstraction Library. [5]

Bivand, Roger, and Colin Rundel. 2018. rgeos: Interface to Geometry Engine - Open Source (’Geos’). [6]

Hijmans, R.J. (2018) raster: Geographic Data Analysis and Modeling [7]


Lesson competencies

Technical References

Maling, D. H. 1992. Coordinate Systems and Map Projections. 2nd ed. Oxford ; New York: Pergamon Press.


Application References