Spatial Data is Special Data

Content for Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Readings

• Coordinate Reference Systems Section 2.4 in Lovelace et al., Geocomputation with R (Lovelace et al. 2019)

• Chapter 1: Introduction in Essentials of Geographic Information Systems by Campbell and Shin (Campbell and Shin 2011)

• Scale and Projections - a portion of Mapping, Society, and Technology an Laura Matson and Melinda Kernik.

Objectives

By the end of today, you should be able to:

• Articulate why we care about space

• Describe elements of spatial data

• Define a coordinate reference system and its importance

• Describe several ways to load spatial data into R

• Identify, assign, and change projections R

Slides

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Geography

Projections

Spatial Data in R

References

Campbell, J., and M. Shin. 2011. Essentials of geographic information systems. Saylor Foundation.

Lovelace, R., J. Nowosad, and J. Muenchow. 2019. Geocomputation with R. CRC Press.