In my previous post I described how to perform pan-sharpening using OrfeoToolbox and QGIS. This time I will show you how to do this in R. At the bottom you will find several functions I wrote on top of the 'raster' package that allow a convenient pan-sharpening in R.MotivationYou ... [Read more...]

It is amusing coincidence that another MOOC that I took this week (Geospatial Intelligence & the Geospatial revolution) mentioned [natural] disasters. About the other course see my recent Disasters: Myth or the Reality post.In Geospatial Intelligence they gave a weird assignment: one need to mark the location on the world ... [Read more...]

As access to the GIS and mapping is becoming easier every year the more people and companies create maps. Unfortunately often they just do not know what they are actually showing at their maps. This issue is being mentioned over and over again.  Here is the example that I discovered ... [Read more...]

"Wow!" - I said to myself after reading R Helps With Employee Churn post - "I can create interactive plots in R?!!! I have to try it out!" I quickly came up with an idea of creating interactive plot for my simple model for assessment of the profitable ratio between ... [Read more...]

This is my third post in this series, here are the links to the Part 1 and Part 2. Sorry for the delay, but at that time I got completely consumed with my PhD thesis and this story just went out of my mind. To the point. There were 2 types of shadows ... [Read more...]

It's been a while since I analysed something with R. I decided to pick into Dota 2 statistics. This game is the real eSport now with players fighting for respectable prise pools. And the main Dota 2 event is The International where best teams compete each other in astonishing battles. So I ... [Read more...]

IntroductionThis is the second part of my post series related to hyper-spectral and LiDAR imagery using R. See other parts: Part 1: Result Evaluation. In this part I will describe my general approach to classification process and then I will show you how to create cool spectral response plots like this: ... [Read more...]

Introduction There was the EEEI Data Fusion Contest this spring. This year they wanted people to elaborate about hyper-spectral (142-bands imagery) and LiDAR data. The resolution of the data-set was about 5 m.  There were 2 nominations: best classification and  the best scientific paper.  I work with high-resolution imagery quite often, but ... [Read more...]

It's been a long time since I had to transform some coordinates 'manually'. I mean I had a list of coordinates that I needed to [re]project. There are some nice proprietary tools for it, but who needs them when the opensource is everywhere?Proj4 is an ... [Read more...]

The issue with the broken histogram creation tool in QGIS annoyed me far too long. Sometimes you just need a quick glance on the histogram of a raster just to make a decision on how to process it or just to assess distribution of classes. But as you kn... [Read more...]

RSAGA provides access to geocomputation capabilities of SAGA GIS from within R environment. Having SAGA GIS installed is a (quite obvious) pre-requirement to use RSAGA. In Linux x64 sometimes additional preparations are needed. In Linux SAGA as we... [Read more...]

Lost entire day fighting this ridicules crash during export of raster created in R to GeoTiff (other "rgdal" functions worked fine). This option worked well several months ago when I last time used it, so I wondered what happened. I searched ... [Read more...]

This post is a some kind of reply to this one.So our goal is to determine whether our point process is random or not. We will use R and spatstat package in particular. Spatstat provides a very handy function for this, that uses K-function combined with... [Read more...]

It's actually already two month old news, but my research "Developement of the Universal Methodology for Assessement of Environmental Risk Caused by Fires at Illegal Dumps" (download in RUSSIAN), that was made special for Fire Monitoring Challenge (by GIS-Lab, Microsoft, NEXTGIS, several universities and GIS/spatial data corporations), was  awarded ... [Read more...]

As you may already know, I'm a proud owner of AMD FX-8150 8-core CPU. And I've purchased it not for gaming reasons, but for science. My previous CPU was painfully slow with such calculations as determination of the relation between fires and distance t... [Read more...]

Instead of introduction Just for fun I decided to investigate relationship between fires intensity in Leningrad region (and St. Petersburg as well) and distance to the nearest road in order to gain the evidence of the major influence of the anthropogen... [Read more...]

Thanks to this post I was able to install R-commander in openSUSE.  I've modified recipe a bit and don't want to search for it the next time.You have to perform several steps:Install R-base and R-base-devel packages from here. Install gfortran :~&... [Read more...]