Beginners Guide: Using MODIS in R « Steven Mosher's Blog. This tutorial is going to assume that you are a beginner in R and Windows and working with MODIS. Obviously, if you already know R and Windows pretty well you can skip a bunch of steps. However, it will be good for you to walk through all the steps as I may do some things in the beginning that influence downstream work. As an overview here is what we are going to do. First we are going to update our R tools and make sure we have the fresh bits. Then we are going to spend some time getting familiar with the bits of the windows system that matter. Basically the console. If you don’t know how to build a package in R under windows, go walk through my package building tutorial.
Then we are going to download some MODIS data by hand and get some tools and utilities for working with MODIS data. First things first however. Matteo Mattiuzzi, Jan Verbesselt, Forrest Stevens, Tomislav Hengl, Anja Klisch, Bradley Evans and Agustin Lobo. GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE SERVER. Image Gallery - High-Resolution Satellite and Aerial Imagery. Free Satellite Imagery.
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