What is Raster Data? Raster or “gridded” data are data that are stored in pixels. In the spatial world, each pixel represents an area on the Earth’s surface. In this post will focus raster package and its key function for importing and manipulating raster objects. I expect that toward the end of the post, you will have a glimpse of this package and you will be able to:
Forecast time series introduction Time series analysis comprises methods for predicting the future based on the historical in order to extract meaningful statistics and other characteristics of the data. In other words, time series forecasting is the use of a model to predict future values based on previously observed values. Time series are widely used for non-stationary data, like economic, weather, stock price, and retail sales in this post.
Introduction Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) is a widely used format for storing array–based data as variables. NetCDF are developed and maintained by Unidata was originally developed for storing and distributiing climate data , such as those generatd by climate simulation or reanalysis models. It has also been adopted in other fields, particularly in oceanography, where large mutidimensional arrays of data are generatted from satellite observation systems. The NetCDF format is a platform-independent because can be transeerred among servers and coputers that are running different operating systems, without a need to convert the file that fit a particular sytem.
We begin with answering the questions. And the possible reason to reach the goal is to define questions like;
what is a raster dataset? What tools/functions are used to import raster in R? How to I work with and plot raster data in R How missing or bad data in R are handled with R Objectives
Describe the fundamental attributes of a raster dataset Explore raster attributtes and metadata Import raster dataset into R workspace visualize raster object Distinguish single versus multi-bands rasters Introduction to Raster data This this section introduce you to the fundamental principles, packages and metadata/raster attributes that are needed to work with raster data in R.
Kernel density estimation is a popular tool for visualizing the distribution of data. In this post, we are going to look on how to create smoothed map of random points. We will use a shapefile dataset that contains potential fishing zones derived from sea surface temperature recorded between January and June 2020 in Pemba channel. You can simply download the file from this link.
Once you have downloaded the file, unzip and browse in the uncompressed file you find the shapefile pfz.
