spatial data

To work with raster data, we will be using a few different packages. If you do not have one or more of the packages, you can install them using install.packages(). After installing packages, you can load them using library().

The spread of disease, politics, the movement of animals, regions vulnerable to earthquakes and where people are most likely to buy frosted flakes are all informed by spatial data. Spatial data links information to specific positions on earth and can tell us about patterns that play out from location to location. We can use spatial data to uncover processes over space and tackle complex problems.