Build reproducible maps and spatial analyses of biodiversity and environmental data using R’s terra package. Practical work covers vector and raster data, projections, thematic and interactive maps, spatial queries, geometry operations and layer transformations. Participants calculate distances, buffers and home ranges, examine terrain and spatial autocorrelation, and combine raster and vector information through extraction, interpolation, map algebra and zonal statistics. Demonstrations and supervised exercises support automated workflows for research datasets; participants may bring their ow
In Cartography and Geography
Create reproducible maps and perform GIS operations with R and the terra package. Working with raster and vector data, participants develop static, thematic, animated and interactive maps, then apply projections, clipping, resampling, buffers, intersections, zonal statistics and distance calculations. Environmental, geological and biodiversity examples connect visualization with spatial analysis, and participants may bring their own data. 2027-01-11–2027-01-15, 15:00–18:00 daily, Europe/Berlin (CET, UTC+01:00). Online course; fee €480. User-level R skills are required; prior GIS experience is