Transform Your Skills: 3D Land Cover Maps in R!

My latest YouTube video is a game-changer for all map enthusiasts and data wizards! 🎥✨ Learn how to harness the power of ESRI Living Atlas of the World Sentinel-2 Global Land Cover data at an incredible 10m resolution to create ultra-crisp 3D elevation and land cover maps using rayshader in R. 🛰️🗺️

Chapters

0:00 Intro
00:24 Packages
03:18 Short notice
03:32 Country boundaries
04:24 Esri data
06:04 Download data
07:05 Enlist raster files
07:48 Reproject and crop
13:54 Virtual raster layer
15:28 Fetch colors
17:15 RGB to hex code
19:13 Assign colors to raster
22:53 Plot raster
23:10 Digital Elevation Model
24:04 Resample land cover
25:39 Plot resampled raster
25:51 Raster to image
27:29 Elevation matrix and dimensions
29:13 Render first scene
32:47 Render second scene
33:25 Render object
36:11 Make legend
42:43 Insert legend into map
46:37 Final thoughts

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[lbarq]

Thank you Milos for another amazing tutorial. It exceeded all my expectations.

[janadju]

Thank you for this great tutorial and providing all your knowledge for free! ☺

[jacksonkimani]

This is very insightful and i will apply that to my own understanding of R and GIS data

[Md.NahinAlam-pu]

This is great! Could you please share your PC's specifications? I have tried several times on my computer, but the final output is not satisfactory.

[KatarinaaBlaa]

hi, I'm doing a land cover map for Serbia and I'm stuck at 15:34 mark, where my min and max values are and respectively. I've been using chatgpt to troubleshoot my issue for 2 hours now but with no luck at all. what could be the issue?

[lkalanda]

Thank you for the fantastic presentation!

I only have one issue when I get to #10 Render Object: whenever I run rayshader::render_highquality code, I get this error:
"Error in path_material_df$type : $ operator is invalid for atomic vectors"

I tried running it in RStudio and VS Code, but I get the same error. Any suggestions on how to fix it? Thanks in advance!

[Appelouz]

I am truly in love with this map style! I'd love to use it to show sample locations for a project in Ecuador, though I wondered whether you have some aesthetic tips for showing which part of the map borders the ocean and which part borders a land mass? By cutting the country out entirely this differentiation is lost

[Abhinav_jha]

I know python, I have started learning R just to try these masterpieces.

[ingcohen]

Excellent contribution. One question, would it be possible to extract percentage data for each characteristic? That is, percentage values for Water, Trees, Built area, etc. Thks

[GeoInfinityIndia]

Thank you for this lovely video.. My requirement is same but I want to use the existing LULC file of my area of interest, not the living atlas or anything like that... Any help will be highly appreciated

[sweven]

Hi Milo, how to get the URL for the tiles in the map? thank you for the tutorial!

[czarinaapdon]

Hi Milos! Thank you for your tutorial, it's wonderful.

I would like to ask, is there a way to restrict the borders down to certain states or provinces only and not the entire country? Thanks so much

[lucas]

Is it possible to remove the "black" line that borders each color in the raster? Thanks again.

[lihao]

Thanks for this nice resource. I wonder how long the rendering take in your case? for me, it was quite slow in the case of Bosnia

[teehee]

Can i know which code editor has been used here? I am just initially going to start learn R. So it would be helpful if i get to know which code editor or studio will be good for a beginner.

[AHMEDNAJIH-yq]

i'm just finiching this masterpeace thank you so much, my question is why you dont use rstudio as an editor instead vcstudio what is the différence? keep going.

[jesenjin]

Hello,
Thank you for the video.
Got this error on step 4:
Error in h(simpleError(msg, call)) :
error in evaluating the argument 'x' in selecting a method for function 'project': error in evaluating the argument 'x' in selecting a method for function 'aggregate': [crop] file exists. You can use 'overwrite=TRUE' to overwrite it

Used same code as you have.

[IrakliKavtaradzepsyche]

Thank you for the video. Do you know if you can make a background a gradient colour with shadows mixed smoothly? In rayshader

[lucas]

I finally managed to get the final result! Although my Bosnia borders are sharp and not detailed like yours. I realized it was the resolution. Only 20 works for me, 10, 03 and 01 says its corrupt. Is it because my pc can't handle such high resolution?

[hamedhaidari]

i have tried 2 of your scripts to run on my computer, non of them works, i think you should also tell us under which version of Rstudio and packages you create this scripts