Geospatial Analysis using Amazon Forest dataset

Our Speaker: Thais Almeida Lima

Do you know what is Geospatial analysis? Are you eager learning it and understand its practical usage? Then this meetup is for you! Geospatial analysis is the gathering, manipulation and computation of useful information from data that can be spatially located on Earth, using a system of geographic coordinates.

In this meetup, Thais Almeida Lima is going introduce some basic steps of Geospatial analysis in R utilizing Raster package and is presenting an interesting practical Use-case.
The study case is focused on the mapping of selective logging activities in the forests of Brazilian Amazon. Participants will learn how to manipulate raster and vector files in R and how to extract useful statistics from these data sets.

Thais A. Lima is a Forester, she holds a Master Degree in Tropical Forest Sciences and she is finishing her PhD in Forestry at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada). She has been working in the Amazon forest for more than 10 years, five of them as law enforcement officer of the Brazilian Government. She has been in Italy since 2016, working as a visiting researcher at the Joint Research Center of the European Commission (Ispra, Varese).