[R-sig-Geo] Extracting GIS file - best approach?

2011-10-18 Thread GodinA
Dear list, I am working with spatstat and am trying to define my owin: spatial region (observation window). I have a set of marked planar point patterns generated from random samplings in different strata. Unfortunately I don't have any GIS file with all the information for each of my strata. I

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Extracting GIS file - best approach?

2011-10-18 Thread GodinA
Marcelino, My dataset is coming from annual bottom-trawl surveys in waters off Newfoundland and Labrador Region, Canada. I am looking at habitat selection (relationship to depth temperature), geographic distribution, and abundance of skate species in the region in 2009. The survey use a

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Extracting GIS file - best approach?

2011-10-18 Thread GodinA
Thank you Agus, I'll look at qgis. - Aurelie Cosandey-Godin Ph.D. Student, Department of Biology, Dalhousie University Industrial Graduate Fellow, WWF-Canada Email: god...@dal.ca | Web: wormlab.biology.dal.ca -- View this message in context:

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Extracting GIS file - best approach?

2011-10-18 Thread GodinA
Hummm... Thank you Marcelino, I agree with you, this dataset isn't a clear stochastic point process per se, however I'm wondering if I can still treat it as such, acknowledging the limitations. Would love hearing people comments. I will look at the dismo package. On a slightly different note,

Re: [R-sig-Geo] multitype point patterns

2011-10-17 Thread GodinA
Awesome! Thank you very much MArcelino! - Aurelie Cosandey-Godin Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Biology Industrial Graduate Fellow, WWF-Canada Dalhousie University | Biology Dept. |Halifax, NS, Canada Email: god...@dal.ca | Web: wormlab.biology.dal.ca

[R-sig-Geo] Bycatch event as ppp?

2011-09-18 Thread GodinA
My mistake, I avoided using the word 'bycatch' to not get into the definition, but I am actually looking at bycatch events, in other words, where the presence or absence of nontarget species i.e., shark/skate in the catch is recorded as a single point for a specific fishing location. Following

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Converting spatialPointsDataFrame into ppp

2011-09-17 Thread GodinA
Thank you very much for this quick reply Dr. Bivand. I am taking good notes of your suggestions. I'm a little concern about your comments that my data are not a marked point process and would like to verify with you a few points. You are correct that my points - the catch positions are

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Converting spatialPointsDataFrame into ppp

2011-09-16 Thread GodinA
Dear all, I am new to spatial and point process analysis (as well as R), however most of my Ph.D. will rely heavily on these tools *sighs :) I am starting a new chapter where I intend to model elasmobranch i.e., shark and skate catch in the Northwest Atlantic Canadian waters using point process