Learning R for Geospatial Analysis

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What you will learn

• Make inferences from tables by joining, reshaping, and aggregating
• Familiarize yourself with the R geospatial data analysis ecosystem
• Prepare reproducible, publicationquality plots and maps
• Efficiently process numeric data, characters, and dates
• Reshape tabular data into the necessary form for the specific task at hand
• Write R scripts to automate the handling of raster and vector spatial layers
• Process elevation rasters and time series visualizations of satellite images
• Perform GIS operations such as overlays and spatial queries between layers
• Spatially interpolate meteorological data to produce climate maps

Who this book is for