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# Preface | ||
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## Who this book is for and who is it not for | ||
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This book is certainly aimed at people with an interest in spatial data analysis with the help of R. | ||
This includes graduate students and researchers from geography, remote sensing and GIScience but also from other backgrounds as diverse as remote sensing, biogeosciences, ecology, forestry, transportation, ... <!-- please add further fields--> | ||
This is the beauty of GIScience as it is applicable to all fields dealing with spatial phenomena. | ||
And even more importantly, GIScience is not only a scientific domain but also used in the public sector and in the business world. | ||
This makes our book, furthermore, interesting to people dealing with urban planning, transportation (logistics) and (geo-)marketing, ... <!-- please add further examples--> | ||
This book also aims at persons with a solid knowledge of GIS technologies who wish to automate their spatial data analysis workflow in a reproducible manner on the command line. | ||
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Though we have tried our best to make our book as accessible as possible to a wide audience, people new to R might find it hard at first reading. | ||
People who prefer a GUI-based GIS approach over the command line might find this book only interesting from a conceptual point of view. | ||
Our programming language is R, and though we refer at times to other languages, people with an interest in geoprocessing with Python, Java, C++ or alike should probably look for another book. | ||
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## Justification, context | ||
compare with: | ||
- ASDAR | ||
- An intro to R for spatial analysis and mapping | ||
- Remote Sensing and GIS for ecologists | ||
- Mapping and Environmental and Ecological Statistics with R (not really a competitor, I have ordered a copy, this book is really about modeling, and I would rather prefer the Zuur et al. books over it) | ||
- http://rspatial.org/intr/index.html (haven't read it but might be more suitable for beginners, however, it does not consider sf; additionally, it provides more code than text, and hence, probably less explanations than our book) |
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