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Modis QC Bits 5 Dec 2012 | 12:32 pm
In the course of working through my MODIS LST project and reviewing the steps that Imhoff and Zhang took as well has the data preparations other researchers have taken ( Neteler ) the issue of MODIS ...
Modis R: Package tutorial 25 Nov 2012 | 10:42 am
The MODIS package for R For people who work in GIS in R there has been a bit of challenge in working with data from Modis. I’ll use an example from my own work on UHI to illustrate. A while back I de...
Terrain effects on SUHI estimates 10 Nov 2012 | 12:10 am
Introduction Zhang and Imhoff (2010) pdf here utilized NLCD impervious surface area (ISA), Olson biomes, and MODIS Land Surface temperature (LST) to estimate the magnitude of UHI in large cities acro...
Pilot Study: Small Town Land Surface Temperature 11 Oct 2012 | 10:10 pm
Introduction Zhang and Imhoff (2010) pdf here utilized NLCD impervious surface area (ISA), Olson biomes, and MODIS Land Surface temperature (LST) to estimate the magnitude of UHI in large cities acro...
Sample Input Data. 8 Oct 2012 | 05:22 am
Just a couple quick examples. Starting with 30 meter impervious surface Followed by MODIS Land cover ( “red” is urban ) And finally Day LST Google earth
More Fun With Modis 8 Oct 2012 | 04:42 am
I’ve started a tutorial on using the MODIS package in R the first few steps are here. While I wait on a release of the package I thought I would play around a bit with the MRT tool and see how it wor...
City Size and SUHI 2 Oct 2012 | 10:19 pm
In the course of putting together data for my kriging project with the CRN stations, I got another idea related to a small but potentially important corner of the concerns over UHI in the global tempe...
rasterVis to the rescue 26 Sep 2012 | 01:59 pm
Programmers like Oscar Perpiñán Lamigueiro are the reason I love R! Oscar is the maintainer of the rasterVis package and it in this post I’ll explain why it is must have package for anyone working wi...
In search of large ice floes 18 Sep 2012 | 01:40 am
In search of large ice floes.
A gWidgets GUI for climate data 10 Jul 2012 | 09:09 am
If you haven’t worked with the gWidgets package it’s worth some time exploring it which is what I’ve been doing for a little paleo project I’ve been working on. After struggling with the few demos and...
