M01-1: Project Data

Things you need for this project work

R — the interpreter can be installed on any operation system. For Linux, you should use the r-cran packages supplied for your Linux distribution. If you use Ubuntu, this is one of many starting points. If you use Windows, you could install R from the official CRAN web page.

R Studio — we recommend to use R Studio for (interactive) programming with R. You can download R Studio from the official web page.

Furthermore, those of you who analyze the possible connection between terrain characteristics and land cover will inevitably require a digital elevation model (DEM). Here, possible candidates originate from (but are not limited to)

the Shuttle Radar Topography Missing (SRTM) and

the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER).

Both missions provide DEMs that come at a spatial resolution of approximately 30 m, which should be totally sufficient for our purposes. In order to get a hold of the corresponding raster images, either use

library(geodata)
elevation_30s(country = "CVP") # this will download elevation data in 90m resolution for Cabo Verde