Author: Alison Boyer
Date: March 26, 2018
Contact for ORNL DAAC: uso@daac.ornl.gov
In this tutorial we will open some geospatial data that is stored in a netCDF file. We will select the variable and time range of interest, and we will export the data to a GeoTIFF so that we can continue the analysis in R or other geospatial software.
Guay, K.C., P.S.A. Beck, and S.J. Goetz. 2015. Long-Term Arctic Growing Season NDVI Trends from GIMMS 3g, 1982-2012. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1275
Specifically, we will use the file “gimms3g_ndvi_1982-2012.nc4”" from this dataset.
R v3.4 or later. Required packages:
- ncdf4 -- for netcdf manipulation
- raster -- for raster manipulation
- rgdal -- for geospatial analysis
- ggplot2 -- for plotting
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