Geostatistics

Disk Geocomputation Data

Presently:

• Elevation focused topographic map of the world
• England's River Basin Districts

References:

• Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs API (Application Programming Interface) Options
  • England's River Basin Districts
  • Water Quality Measurements Archive

Notes

Next, focus on (a) Chapters 7, 8, & 9 of Geocomputation with R, (b) P Diggle, and (c) the vignettes of simple features.

Books:

• Geocomputation with R
• Model-based Geostatistics: Methods and Applications in Global Public Health
• bookdown

Geography:

• Projections
• Geographic vs. Coördinated Reference Systems
• tmap Reference
• https://www.diva-gis.org
• https://epsg.io
• https://hub.arcgis.com/datasets/esri::world-utm-grid/explore?location=-0.000000%2C0.000000%2C1.92

Tools:

• Simple Features

  • Vignettes: geometry types
  • Simple Features
  • Simple Features Reference
  • Geometry Types ↠ Chapter 4 of PostGIS

• Thematic Maps

  • Vignette: Getting Started ↠ facets, multiple shapes & layers, interactive maps, etc.
  • Layers ↠ polygons, symbols, lines, text, raster, tiles

• Conversions between different spatial classes in R

• File Formats

• Journal of maps style guide

• HTML Symbols, Entities, Special Characters

Building on masters data science module CHIC563: Geostatistics