Plotkml: Scientific visualization of spatio-temporal data

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1-25

  Hengl, Tomislav ^a   Roudier, Pierre ^b   Beaudette, Dylan ^c   Pebesma, Edzer ^d  

^a ISRIC WORLD SOIL INFORMATION   (Netherlands)

^b Landcare Research   (Netherlands)

^c USDA NRCS Soil Science Division   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; R, KML; Scientific visualization; Space time objects

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922489228     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v063.i05     Document Type: Article

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