Re: [R-sig-Geo] A new ASTER Global DEM data set

2009-11-24 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:33:19 +1100 Pierre Roudier pierre.roud...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for my previous HTML-formatted message, here it is again: Another package I find useful for shaded views of spatial data is the rgl package. Thanks for the suggestion. It looks even better than the

Re: [R-sig-Geo] A new ASTER Global DEM data set

2009-11-24 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:41:59 +0100 Karl Ove Hufthammer k...@huftis.org wrote: Another package I find useful for shaded views of spatial data is the rgl package. Thanks for the suggestion. It looks even better than the 'persp' solution. Just one additional note, for people wanting to use

Re: [R-sig-Geo] A new ASTER Global DEM data set

2009-11-23 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:16:35 +0100 Paul Hiemstra p.hiems...@geo.uu.nl wrote: The maps with shading look quite nice. Is there an R package/function which can create similar images? A good place to look for these kinds of graphs and how to make them is the R graph gallery [1]. Check out

Re: [R-sig-Geo] A new ASTER Global DEM data set

2009-11-23 Thread Pierre Roudier
Sorry for my previous HTML-formatted message, here it is again: Another package I find useful for shaded views of spatial data is the rgl package. It is most useful because of its ability to zoom and turn the map interactively. From surface3d() help page : data(volcano) z - 2 * volcano x - 10

Re: [R-sig-Geo] A new ASTER Global DEM data set

2009-11-20 Thread Barry Rowlingson
2009/11/20 Yong Li yong...@unimelb.edu.au: Dear all folks, I was informed in the 6th Digital Earth Conference that there is a better place to acquire high resolution of global DEM developed by ASTER, called GDEM with 30 m resolution, and fantastically free of charge. I tried some here

Re: [R-sig-Geo] A new ASTER Global DEM data set

2009-11-20 Thread Ashton Shortridge
On Friday 20 November 2009 07:09:35 Barry Rowlingson wrote: 2009/11/20 Yong Li yong...@unimelb.edu.au: Dear all folks, I was informed in the 6th Digital Earth Conference that there is a better place to acquire high resolution of global DEM developed by ASTER, called GDEM with 30 m

Re: [R-sig-Geo] A new ASTER Global DEM data set

2009-11-20 Thread Tomislav Hengl
- From: r-sig-geo-boun...@stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:r-sig-geo-boun...@stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Ashton Shortridge Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 3:15 PM To: r-sig-geo@stat.math.ethz.ch Cc: Yong Li Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] A new ASTER Global DEM data set On Friday 20 November 2009 07:09

Re: [R-sig-Geo] A new ASTER Global DEM data set

2009-11-20 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:53:15 +0100 Tomislav Hengl he...@spatial- analyst.net wrote: The 4 case studies can be downloaded from here: http://geomorphometry.org/system/files/GDEM_assessment.zip GDEM is a frankestein - once you zoom in and add some shading, The maps with shading look quite