R for GIS

Ben Hickson

UA Libraries

bhickson@email.arizona.edu

R?

• Statistical programming language widely embraced in the environmental sciences
• Open Source -> Extremely flexible
  • 10,000+ packages
• Windows, Mac, and Linux
• Very active community
• Can be for functional command line GIS

R?

• Statistical programming language widely embraced in the environmental sciences
• Open Source -> Extremely flexible
  • 10,000+ packages
• Windows, Mac, and Linux
• Very active community
• Can be for functional command line GIS

R in GIS

• Can accomplish the same tasks and operations as QGIS or ArcGIS
  
• Easy data pre-processing and clean up
  
• Analysis
  
• Modeling
  
  
• GDAL based...
  

WAsP .map forma

Arc/Info ASCII Grid
ACE2
ADRG/ARC Digitilized Raster Graphics (.gen/.thf)
Arc/Info Binary Grid (.adf)
AIRSAR Polarimetric
Azavea Raster Grid
Magellan BLX Topo (.blx, .xlb)
Bathymetry Attributed Grid (.bag)
Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap (.bmp)
BPG (Better Portable Graphics)
BSB Nautical Chart Format (.kap)
VTP Binary Terrain Format (.bt)
AutoCAD DWG Raster layer
CALS Type I
CEOS (Spot for instance)

DRDC COASP SAR Processor Raster
TerraSAR-X Complex SAR Data Product
Convair PolGASP data
CTable2 Datum Grid Shift
USGS LULC Composite Theme Grid
DB2
DirectDraw Surface
Derived
Spot DIMAP (metadata.dim)
ELAS DIPEx
DODS / OPeNDAP
First Generation USGS DOQ (.doq)
New Labelled USGS DOQ (.doq)
Military Elevation Data (.dt0, .dt1, .dt2)
Arc/Info Export E00 GRID
ECRG Table Of Contents (TOC.xml)
ERDAS Compressed Wavelets (.ecw)
ESRI .hdr Labelled

Erdas Imagine Raw
NASA ELAS
ENVI .hdr Labelled Raster
Epsilon - Wavelet compressed images
ERMapper (.ers)
Envisat Image Product (.n1)
EOSAT FAST Format
FIT
FITS (.fits)
Fuji BAS Scanner Image
Generic Binary (.hdr Labelled)
GeoPackage
Oracle Spatial GeoRaster
GSat File Format
Graphics Interchange Format (.gif)
WMO GRIB1/GRIB2 (.grb)
GMT Compatible netCDF
GRASS Raster Format

GRASS ASCII Grid
Golden Software ASCII Grid
Golden Software Binary Grid
Golden Software Surfer 7 Binary Grid
GSC Geogrid
Generic Tagged Arrays (.gta)
TIFF / BigTIFF / GeoTIFF (.tif)
NOAA .gtx vertical datum shift
GXF - Grid eXchange File
Hierarchical Data Format Release 4 (HDF4)
Hierarchical Data Format Release 5 (HDF5)
HF2/HFZ heightfield raster
Erdas Imagine (.img)
Image Display and Analysis (WinDisp)
ILWIS Raster Map (.mpr,.mpl)
Intergraph Raster

USGS Astrogeology ISIS cube (Version 2)
USGS Astrogeology ISIS cube (Version 3)
JAXA PALSAR Product Reader (Level 1.1/1.5)
Japanese DEM (.mem)
JPEG JFIF (.jpg)
JPEG-LS
JPEG2000 (.jp2, .j2k)
JPEG2000 (.jp2, .j2k)
JPEG2000 (.jp2, .j2k)
JPEG2000 (.jp2, .j2k)
JPEG2000 (.jp2, .j2k)
JPEG2000 (.jp2, .j2k)
JPIP (based on Kakadu)
KEA
KMLSUPEROVERLAY
KRO
NOAA Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set (AVHRR)
Erdas 7.x .LAN and .GIS
FARSITE v.4 LCP Format
Daylon Leveller Heightfield
NADCON .los/.las Datum Grid Shift
MBTiles
OziExplorer .MAP
In Memory Raster
Vexcel MFF
Vexcel MFF2
MG4 Encoded Lidar
Meta Raster Format
Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database
Meteosat Second Generation
EUMETSAT Archive native (.nat)
NLAPS Data Format
NOAA NGS Geoid Height Grids
NITF (.ntf, .nsf, .gn?, .hr?, .ja?, .jg?, .jn?, .lf?, .on?, .tl?, .tp?, etc.)
NetCDF
NTv2 Datum Grid Shift
Northwood/VerticalMapper Classified Grid Format .grc/.tab
Northwood/VerticalMapper Numeric Grid Format .grd/.tab
OZI OZF2/OZFX3
PCI .aux Labelled
PCI Geomatics Database File
PCRaster
Geospatial PDF
NASA Planetary Data System
NASA Planetary Data System (Version 4)
Planet Labs Mosaics API
Portable Network Graphics (.png)
PostGIS Raster (previously WKTRaster)
Netpbm (.ppm,.pgm)
PHOTOMOD raster file (.prf,.x-dem)
R Object Data Store
Rasdaman
Rasterlite - Rasters in SQLite DB
Rasterlite2 - Rasters in SQLite DB
Swedish Grid RIK (.rik)
Raster Matrix Format (*.rsw, .mtw)
ROI_PAC Raster
Raster Product Format/RPF (CADRG, CIB)
RadarSat2 XML (product.xml)
R Raster (.grd)
Idrisi Raster
Sentinel 1 SAR SAFE (manifest.safe)
Sentinel 2
SAGA GIS Binary format
SAR CEOS
ArcSDE Raster
USGS SDTS DEM (*CATD.DDF)
SGI Image Format
Snow Data Assimilation System
Standard Raster Product (ASRP/USRP)
SRTM HGT Format
Terragen Heightfield (.ter)
EarthWatch/DigitalGlobe .TIL
TerraSAR-X Product
USGS ASCII DEM / CDED (.dem)
VICAR
GDAL Virtual (.vrt)
OGC Web Coverage Service
WEBP
OGC Web Map Service, and TMS, WorldWind, On Earth tiled, VirtualEarth, ArcGIS REST, IIP)
OGC Web Map Tile Service
X11 Pixmap (.xpm)
ASCII Gridded XYZ
ZMap Plus Grid

Erdas 7.x .LAN and .GIS
FARSITE v.4 LCP Format
Daylon Leveller Heightfield
NADCON .los/.las Datum Grid Shift
MBTiles
OziExplorer .MAP
In Memory Raster
Vexcel MFF
Vexcel MFF2
MG4 Encoded Lidar
Meta Raster Format
Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database
Meteosat Second Generation
EUMETSAT Archive native (.nat)
NLAPS Data Format
NOAA NGS Geoid Height Grids
NITF
NetCDF

NTv2 Datum Grid Shift
Northwood/VerticalMapper Classified Grid Format .grc/.tab
Northwood/VerticalMapper Numeric Grid Format .grd/.tab
OZI OZF2/OZFX3
PCI .aux Labelled
PCI Geomatics Database File
PCRaster
Geospatial PDF
NASA Planetary Data System
NASA Planetary Data System (Version 4)
Planet Labs Mosaics API
Portable Network Graphics (.png)
PostGIS Raster (previously WKTRaster)
Netpbm (.ppm,.pgm)
PHOTOMOD raster file (.prf,.x-dem)
R Object Data Store
Rasdaman
Rasterlite - Rasters in SQLite DB
Rasterlite2 - Rasters in SQLite DB
Swedish Grid RIK (.rik)
Raster Matrix Format (*.rsw, .mtw)
ROI_PAC Raster
Raster Product Format/RPF (CADRG, CIB)
RadarSat2 XML (product.xml)
R Raster (.grd)
Idrisi Raster
Sentinel 1 SAR SAFE (manifest.safe)
Sentinel 2
SAGA GIS Binary format
SAR CEOS
ArcSDE Raster
USGS SDTS DEM (*CATD.DDF)
SGI Image Format
Snow Data Assimilation System
Standard Raster Product (ASRP/USRP)
SRTM HGT Format
Terragen Heightfield (.ter)
EarthWatch/DigitalGlobe .TIL
TerraSAR-X Product
USGS ASCII DEM / CDED (.dem)
VICAR
GDAL Virtual (.vrt)
OGC Web Coverage Service
WEBP
OGC Web Map Service, and TMS, WorldWind, On Earth tiled, VirtualEarth, ArcGIS REST, IIP)
OGC Web Map Tile Service
X11 Pixmap (.xpm)
ASCII Gridded XYZ
ZMap Plus Grid

Rasdaman
Rasterlite - Rasters in SQLite DB
Rasterlite2 - Rasters in SQLite DB
Swedish Grid RIK (.rik)
Raster Matrix Format (*.rsw, .mtw)
ROI_PAC Raster
Raster Product Format/RPF (CADRG, CIB)
RadarSat2 XML (product.xml)
R Raster (.grd)
Idrisi Raster
Sentinel 1 SAR SAFE (manifest.safe)
Sentinel 2
SAGA GIS Binary format
SAR CEOS
ArcSDE Raster
USGS SDTS DEM (*CATD.DDF)
SGI Image Format
Snow Data Assimilation System

Standard Raster Product (ASRP/USRP)
SRTM HGT Format
Terragen Heightfield (.ter)
EarthWatch/DigitalGlobe .TIL
TerraSAR-X Product
USGS ASCII DEM / CDED (.dem)
VICAR
GDAL Virtual (.vrt)
OGC Web Coverage Service
WEBP
OGC Web Map Service, and TMS, WorldWind, On Earth tiled, VirtualEarth, ArcGIS REST, IIP)
OGC Web Map Tile Service
X11 Pixmap (.xpm)
ASCII Gridded XYZ
ZMap Plus Grid

Resources

• R’s spatial ecosystem

• R Spatial

• Geospatial Viz in R

• Creating maps with R

• Colors in R & R colors cheat sheet
• ggmap cheat sheet
• Processing large rasters
• Efficient programming in R
• geoJSON in R
• R plot.ly library
• R graph gallery

pulled from https://github.com/tacormier/FOSS4G_Boston2017

https://github.com/Robinlovelace/Creating-maps-in-R

Resources