Learning objectives

• Read & write raster data
• Perform basic raster file operations/conversions
• Perform simple raster calculations

Introduction

Raster data is like any image. Although it may portray various properties of objects in the real world, these objects don’t exist as separate objects; rather, they are represented using pixels of various values which are assigned a color.

Today’s tutorial is about constructing a simple spatio-temporal analysis using raster data, R, and git.