David D. Hofmann

PhD Student in Ecology, University of Zurich

Elevation Data in R

Elevation data is a crucial element of many ecological studies. Unfortunately, collecting, cleaning, and stitching tiles from a digital elevation model is often tedious. Thus, I’ll show you how you can access elevation data straight from within R. In addition, you’ll learn how to derive terrain features and how to use the rayshader package, a package for beautiful 3d plots.