Most of the code examples in this book use data from external files. To reproduce the examples, you are encouraged to download these files from the book's website and then copy them to a single directory on the hard drive. In the example code, the files are assumed to reside in C:\Data. To use a different directory, the examples code should be modified accordingly.
The external files in this book's examples, in an alphabetical order of first filenames, are listed in the following table:
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Associated files |
Description |
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Daily meteorological data for Albuquerque International Airport |
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Daily climatic records from the Albuquerque International Airport, New Mexico, United States meteorological station. Downloaded from the NOAA Climate Data Online website at http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web. Accessed May 2014. |
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Monthly climatic records from meteorological stations in Spain. Downloaded from the NOAA Climate Data Online website at http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web. Accessed May 2014. | |
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US Census County Population Change 2012 data. Downloaded from the United States Census Bureau at https://www.census.gov/popest/data/counties/totals/2012/CO-EST2012-alldata.html. Accessed May 2014. | |
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Shapefile of administrative area boundaries in England and Wales. Downloaded from the Office for National Statistics at https://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk. Accessed May 2014. | |
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GPS track record from a trip in Lahav and Dvira forests. Downloaded from a GPS device. | |
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A polygonal Shapefile of buildings based on OpenStreetMap data (http://www.openstreetmap.org). Accessed May 2014. | |
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A polygonal Shapefile of natural areas, based on OpenStreetMap data (http://www.openstreetmap.org). Accessed May 2014. | |
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Portion of Landsat satellite image of central Israel obtained on October 15, 1998 |
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A six-band raster, corresponding to Landsat bands 1-5 and 7. Image taken on October 15, 1998. Downloaded from http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ and preprocessed to obtain reflectance values. |
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Portion of Landsat satellite image of central Israel obtained on October 4, 2000 |
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A six-band raster, corresponding to Landsat bands 1-5 and 7. Image taken on October 4, 2000. Downloaded from http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ and preprocessed to obtain reflectance values. |
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Portion of Landsat satellite image of central Israel obtained on September 11, 2003 |
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A six-band raster, corresponding to Landsat bands 1-5 and 7. Image taken on September 11, 2003. Downloaded from http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ and preprocessed to obtain reflectance values. |
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A polygonal Shapefile of buildings based on OpenStreetMap data (http://www.openstreetmap.org). Accessed May 2014. | |
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A polygonal Shapefile of natural areas based on OpenStreetMap data (http://www.openstreetmap.org). Accessed May 2014. | |
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A portion of NDVI images of central Israel from MODIS satellite data from February 18, 2000 to April 6, 2012 |
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A 280-band raster,with NDVI images for the period February 18, 2000 to April 6, 2012. Data obtained from the MODIS product MOD13A1. Downloaded from http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. |
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Table with supplementary information (dates) regarding each layer in | |
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A sample raster file for demonstration in Chapter 1, The R Environment |
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Annual rainfall amount in northern and central Israel, interpolated from meteorological stations data. |
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DEM data from the SRTM dataset (see | |
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Polygons corresponding to the second level administrative division (counties) of the USA with several attributes such as county names and Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) code. |