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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788991674

Length 354 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

R

Tools

QGIS

Concepts

Geospatial Analysis

Authors (2):

Brad Hamson

Shammunul Islam

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

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

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Questions

After completing this chapter, readers should be comfortable answering the following questions:

What are the spatial data classes available in R (sp package)?
How can users visualize spatial data in R?
How can users import shapefiles and use background maps in R?
How is CRS set in QGIS?
How is quantitative and qualitative data visualized in QGIS?
How are text diagrams used in QGIS?
How may background maps be added?

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Authors (2)

Islam

Islam

Shammunul Islam is a consulting spatial data scientist at the Institute of Remote Sensing, Jahangirnagar University, and a senior consultant at ERI, Bangladesh. He develops applications for automating geospatial and statistical analysis in different domains such as in the fields of the environment, climate, and socio-economy. He also consults as a survey statistician and provides corporate training on data science to businesses. He holds an MA in Climate and Society from Columbia University, an MA in development studies, and a BSc in statistics.

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