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Hands-On Geospatial Analysis with R and QGIS

By : Shammunul Islam, Brad Hamson
Book Image

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

Summary

In this chapter, we have learned about the basics of point pattern processes, including what points, events, marks, and windows are, as well as the ppp object. Using the spatstat package of R, we have learned how to create a ppp object both with and without marks by importing a CSV file. Using density, we can easily visualize these points. After that, we saw how to use the quadrat test for checking CSR in a point pattern process. For checking clustering, we learned about three more functions: G, K, and L. We can test the null hypothesis of CSR using maximum absolute deviation and the sum of the squared distance between different simulated functions. We also learned how to use the spatialkernel package of R for spatial segregation of bivariate marked point pattern data. In the next chapter, we'll learn how to use geostatistics using different functionalities of R.

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