[R-sig-Geo] Introductory tutorials posted: using the raster package for landscape ecology

[pgalpern]

Hello!

Some readers of the list may be interested in a series of tutorials I 
have developed for an graduate student audience.  These are introductory 
in nature, and assume no prior knowledge of R.  They are intended to 
build skill at using R, particularly the raster package, for 
applications in landscape ecology.

The three tutorials as well as supporting landscape and ecological data 
are posted in PDF at http://nricaribou.cc.umanitoba.ca/R/

An abbreviated table of contents:

Workshop 1:  Getting R to work for you

Workshop 2:  Spatial analysis - Introduction
   GIS data formats
   Building a landscape raster
   Calculating landscape metrics

Workshop 3:  Spatial analysis - Applications
   Exploring a real landscape
   Using point locations to produce landscape variables
       Extraction using buffered points
       Minimum distance from a point to a class

Best,
Paul

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Paul Galpern, PhD Candidate
Natural Resources Institute
70 Dysart Road
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2M6
http://borealscape.ca