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Hands-On Geospatial Analysis with R and QGIS

Hands-On Geospatial Analysis with R and QGIS

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

Hands-On Geospatial Analysis with R and QGIS

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By: Hamson, Islam

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.
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GRASS, Graphical Modelers, and Web Mapping

Classification of raster data

Classification refers to classifying data to different categories; in the case of remote-sensing literature, this refers to classifying different land cover types, generally. This can be done in two ways: supervised and unsupervised. Supervised classification refers to a situation where we create a training area and generate a signature area from the training area, and then use that to classify a raster. In unsupervised classification, the user determines into how many clusters they want to divide the data beforehand, and then the image is classified into that number of clusters; finally, the user then identifies the relevant land classes for the clusters.

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