Spatial Analysis and Mapping in R- 1st-3rd April 2025

£360.00

Do you use spatial data or data which lends itself to mapping? Here is the timetable for our 3-day course to help you go from “what are vectors and rasters?” to “I can extract values from rasters in an area covered by this polygon”.

Do you use spatial data or data which lends itself to mapping? Here is the timetable for our 3-day course to help you go from “what are vectors and rasters?” to “I can extract values from rasters in an area covered by this polygon”.

Spatial Analysis and Mapping in R Course

Day 1 - Vectors

Morning (9am – 12pm) Installation of additional software and accessing Dropbox materials (Optional) Introductions and welcome talk Getting started with R and RStudio; syntax, scripts and data handling

Afternoon (1pm – 4pm) Understanding and using vectors Combining multiple datasets and using external data Creating buffers and calculating polygon areas

Day 2 - Rasters

Morning (9am – 12pm) Understanding rasters Handling rasters

Afternoon (1pm – 4pm) Converting rasters Extracting values from rasters Workshop – Applying to your own data/using additional datasets

Day 3 – Spatial Analysis

Morning (9am – 12pm) Calculating MCPs, Kernels and LoCoH Hidden Markov Models/ EMBC

Afternoon (1pm – 4pm) Testing for for spatial randomness Using GAM visualisations