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Hands-On Geospatial Analysis with R and QGIS

By : Shammunul Islam, Brad Hamson
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Hands-On Geospatial Analysis with R and QGIS

By: Shammunul Islam, Brad Hamson

Overview of this book

Managing spatial data has always been challenging and it's getting more complex as the size of data increases. Spatial data is actually big data and you need different tools and techniques to work your way around to model and create different workflows. R and QGIS have powerful features that can make this job easier. This book is your companion for applying machine learning algorithms on GIS and remote sensing data. You’ll start by gaining an understanding of the nature of spatial data and installing R and QGIS. Then, you’ll learn how to use different R packages to import, export, and visualize data, before doing the same in QGIS. Screenshots are included to ease your understanding. Moving on, you’ll learn about different aspects of managing and analyzing spatial data, before diving into advanced topics. You’ll create powerful data visualizations using ggplot2, ggmap, raster, and other packages of R. You’ll learn how to use QGIS 3.2.2 to visualize and manage (create, edit, and format) spatial data. Different types of spatial analysis are also covered using R. Finally, you’ll work with landslide data from Bangladesh to create a landslide susceptibility map using different machine learning algorithms. By reading this book, you’ll transition from being a beginner to an intermediate user of GIS and remote sensing data in no time.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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GRASS, Graphical Modelers, and Web Mapping

Working with raster data in QGIS

QGIS can be used to perform a number of raster data analysis and management tasks. Having covered how to work with raster data in R, this chapter now looks at how to do some of those tasks, as well as others tasks, in QGIS. Some of the tasks performed in R with raster data can be done faster in QGIS. We'll now have a look at some of these functionalities in QGIS.

False color composite

We'll stack raster images of different bands into a single image with multiple bands using stacking. We'll work with the Landsat images that can be found under the Mosaic folder. Inside the Mosaic folder, we have a sub-folder, 1, and inside that, there are multiple images corresponding to different...