Hi, I read somewhere that when carrying out geostatistical analysis in R you should not use latitude and longitude...can anyone expand on this a little for me, and what would be the best coordinate system to use?
I have my data in a geographic coordinate system, WGS84, decimal degrees....is this the wrong format for such analyses? I have also converted my data in the UTM projection and so have it in metres....(ranging from 480,000 to 550,000 E and 170,000 to 230,000 N). If I was to use the UTM coordinates, should I be using the actual coordinates in metres, or should I convert this into an arbitrary coordinate system (i.e. from 0 - 1) somehow? I have noticed that running an analysis on the data gives different results depending on which type of system you use, so I want to make sure I have the correct system. I should also probably note that I am a geostatistical novice! Thanks, -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Coordinate-systems-for-geostatistics-in-R-tp19104598p19104598.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
