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Use of Grass and R w.r.t. Land Use Prediction

In my data mining term project I need to conduct a work on geospatial data related to a big city to show possible urbanization fields in next years. I've used GRASS lately on other projects so I'm a ...
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R gridding and contouring options

I want to make an interactive web mapping application, which will grid and contour user data. My plan is to implement R scripts with Shiny, but the only R package I can find to do this is gstat. And ...
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How to do a looping to Interpolate a huge Rainfall Time-series in GRASS GIS or R

In GRASS GIS I have access to a table in PostgreSQL Database with this structure: Table Name: rainfall_time_series Columns: id | year | month | day | value_mm | x | y | gauge_code Setting g.region ...
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Set certain amount of pixels to 1 inside of a polygon (GRASS)

I have a rather coarse vector map with polygons and want to calculate a (sufficiently) finer raster map defined by spatial extension and resolution. Every polygon of the vector map has a value ...
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How to reproject a raster to Winkel Tripel projection?

I'm trying to project a raster map (in ASCII grid format) from longlat to the Winkel Tripel projection. But I'm running into errors, for instance gdalwarp won't accept the proj-string. $ gdalwarp ...
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How to single out country data from a world data map?

Say that i have two "data sources"; A global map of average wind speeds, A shape file (or similar information) of all country borders in the world. How do i combine these two sources and extract ...
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Dissolve ploygons in QGIS or Grass to new polygons of defined population sizes

I have a shapefile with 3800 polygons representing the smallest administrative areas in Ireland. Many of these, in rural areas, have tiny populations, under 100 people. In urban areas, all would have ...
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Making a Bridge Classification tool in GRASS GIS

I'm working on a tool for classifying bridges with GRASS. I have been using examples online but I've come to a standstill as how to actually make this tool in GRASS. I have my raster of my area and ...
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creating a raster of the residuals of a regression between two rasters

I am trying to create a raster of the residuals of a regression between two rasters. i.e. I would like to carry out a regression of one raster against another of the same extent and plot the residual ...
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What open source solution would work best for auto extracting features from satellite images? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Feature Extraction - Land cover I have been looking for an open source solution which would allow me to define a region (or collection of images) and extract features ...
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Kriging on GRASS+R

I'm trying to do a groundwater elevation map with an Ordinary Kriging on R, but always resulting on the lack of memory cannot allocate vector of size 146.5 Mb allocation (windows xp 32bit). ...
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spgrass6 and GIS_LOCK

I would like to thank's everyone first, i learn a lot here (gis.stackexchange) about GIS. I have one question about the use of GRASS within R session, i'm able to do some basic task, but i have one ...
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Altitude Above channel in GRASS 6.4

i'm fairly new to the GIS world and GRASS (come from econometric background), i would like to do some species distribution modeling using R and GRASS. So i started to read the book of Tomislav Hengl ...
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R: Download a large DEM, change projection, and adjust to smaller scale

This is a process that takes just a few seconds in GIS software. My attempt to do it in R uses a large amount of memory then fails. Is there something wrong in my code, or is this just something R ...