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Hands-On Geospatial Analysis with R and QGIS

You're reading from   Hands-On Geospatial Analysis with R and QGIS A beginner's guide to manipulating, managing, and analyzing spatial data using R and QGIS 3.2.2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788991674
Length 354 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Brad Hamson Brad Hamson
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Preface 1. Setting Up R and QGIS Environments for Geospatial Tasks FREE CHAPTER 2. Fundamentals of GIS Using R and QGIS 3. Creating Geospatial Data 4. Working with Geospatial Data 5. Remote Sensing Using R and QGIS 6. Point Pattern Analysis 7. Spatial Analysis 8. GRASS, Graphical Modelers, and Web Mapping 9. Classification of Remote Sensing Images 10. Landslide Susceptibility Mapping 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Installing QGIS

QGIS is a free and open source geographic information system (GIS) that we can use for various spatial data management and analysis tasks for different fields, such as geography, environmental science, disaster management, urban planning, climate science, and many other fields that use spatial data. The strength of QGIS lies in the fact that it is an open source platform coupled with different plugins available for computing different tasks.

QGIS can be installed in different operating systems such as Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and so on. QGIS can be installed from the following site:

http://download.osgeo.org/qgis/win64/

After going to the previously mentioned website, we will scroll down and click on QGIS-OSGeo4W-3.2.2-1-Setup-x86_64.exe to download QGIS 3.2.2-1 (or click on the installer relevant to the operating system you are using):

Now, if you are a Mac user, you need to install the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) framework and the matplotlib module of Python before installing QGIS. You can do so from this address: http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/qgis
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Hands-On Geospatial Analysis with R and QGIS
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