landcover

Description of data

Data are taken from the National Land Cover Database - 2011 and represent land cover at a 30m X 30m resolution. location of data: National Land Cover Database - 2011

Websites referenced for this project:

• Spatial Data in R
• Data Import & Export in R
• R Markdown Reference
• Raster Images in R Graphics
• Converting shapefiles to rasters in R
• Projecting sp objects in R
• USState source
• Map and analyze raster data in R
• Crop a raster using a shapefile

Import raster file for US landcover and shapefile for state borders

## OGR data source with driver: ESRI Shapefile 
## Source: ".", layer: "states"
## with 51 features
## It has 5 fields

## OGR data source with driver: ESRI Shapefile 
## Source: ".", layer: "tl_2011_us_county"
## with 3234 features
## It has 17 fields

Raster plot of US with state and county border overlays

Plotted cropped map of California to later crop US raster map

Plotted cropped and masked raster map of CA, with counties and bordering states delineated