Mapping uninhabited areas

In this tutorial, I will show you how to use the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) data to map uninhabited areas for any place on planet Earth with R, terra, and ggplot2.

0:00 Prologue
01:10 Intro
01:44 Load libraries
03:46 GHSL data
05:35 Download GHSL data
06:43 Load GHSL data
07:55 Australia shapefile
09:13 Crop GHSL with Australia shapefile
10:12 Australia raster to dataframe
10:59 Inspect dataframe
11:29 Change column name
13:22 Map uninhabited areas
20:31 Final map
20:50 Closing

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[mubangansofu]

Excellent, my GIS skills are getting better & truly standing on the shoulders of giants(Milos) makes a big difference

[alfagelnne]

Excellent tutorial with a fascinating dataset!

Excellent! Definetly going to try this.

[katohumphrey]

Hello Milos, I would like to thank you for your tutorials for I have learnt a lot from them. but how can I calculate such area?

[ZahidAsghar]

Simply awesome and super easy. I made it for Pakistan to get it insight. I hope you ll not mind for using your codes. Thanks

[camsnouse]

What a wonderful tutorial. I look forward to exploring your others. I have a question I suspect there is an easy answer to, but I am stuck. I used your tutorial and code as template, and attempted to make a similar uninhabited areas map for Argentina. However, when I view the output the country appears very distorted (stretched horizontally). I can confirm that both the Spat Raster object and the country border vector are in the same projection (WGS 84), so I do not *think* it is a projection issue. But what I see is definitely not how Argentina appears on WGS84-projected maps...

Thanks!

[sandunpriyankarasomarathna]

sir .I have a request, can you do the kind of map which show the atmospheric pollution in particular country in particular year .and how it change the across the country. Because this topic is very common in these days

[sandunpriyankarasomarathna]

sir, in here i have a question .how do you say 0(value) is inhabitant(no settlements).what is indicated by value column .because all the process is based on this. if it is grateful, you can say concise answer.

[darioezequieldiaz]

Hello! I am from Argentina. Query: where did you get the source of population data by area? from INDEC? of the 2010 or 2022 census?

[sandunpriyankarasomarathna]

sir, i am doing gis project using r programing.i have to face some technical issues some are solved .can i cantact you through email to find out some solutions for that