[R-sig-Geo] satellite imagery

[Ned Horning]

Hi Nick,

The Raster package has been my key to working with images in R. 
Leveraging the Raster package you can use just about any classification 
engine or statistics queries you want. I've been quite impress with the 
RandomForest package (among others) for image classification. I'm happy 
to share the script I use and a guide with instructions if you're 
interested.

All the best,

Ned

On 12/04/2010 08:50 PM, Nick Matzke wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to do some somewhat simple satellite image analysis, 
> ideally with an R package.  Basically, I need to:
>
> * load a .img file (a subset of a 6-channel Landsat image)
> * classify the pixels
> * extract some statistics
>
> Is there an R package people would recommend for this kind of thing?
>
> I'm working with macs, basically, I know some of the free GIS stuff is 
> windows-based...
>
> Any advice appreciated.  Cheers!
> Nick
>
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