Large .img file processing in R (GIS) -
i working u.s. national landcover dataset (nlcd) classify habitat type @ more 150 sites across northeast u.s. dataset large (15gb) cannot upload here, comes in .img format @ 30m resolution. have gps coordinates center point of sites. able extract proportion of landcover classes in 1 square kilometer around point. questions are:
1) how upload .img files r? 2) how extract information around gps coordinates proportions of different habitat classes?
has worked dataset in r before? if use help. cheers, israel
use raster
package can process files disk, reading in chunks @ time.
the raster
package has extract
function buffer
argument. set buffer appropriate value (1000
if map units metres , want km
radius)
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