Drawing Spatial patterns of any data needs ARCGIS but actually it is a commercial so how it can be done without GIS
Hi Osama,
For your job you may try MatLab (for calculation) along with QGIS (for mapping). Both of these softwares are freely available.
Good luck
Supriti
If the data are in .NC files you can use any of the following packages :
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/software.html
your question lack the basic information. Tell me what will your spatial patterns you want to investigate?
Matlab 2013+ is good software for anlysis and visulization of rain fall data even in text files, csv, excel.. etc
Muhammad Sallem, There are many tools and commands are not available in Matlab2013 as GIS to show the patterns accurately.
Check this:
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/intro-spatial-rl.pdf
QGIS and GRASS GIS are open source alternatives to ArcGIS. On the math side, GNU Octave is an open-source alternative to Matlab. As someone already said, R has packages for handling spatial data, specifically the SP and RGDAL packages.
I agree with you Alber. QGIS and GRASS are very good options. And we should include ILWIS (ITC) , a raster based GIS that has a strong academic background on Photogrammetry an Remote Sensing from the ITC experiance. There was an academic version that can be downloaded from the ITC site. QGIS is easy to use and has the capability to import imagery from very different sources, like ERDAS, etc.
Hope it helps.
Gabriel
Hello everybody,
I propose to use Surfer Software.
It is very easy to use and It offers different interpolation methods.
QGIS and GRASS are great tools!
Here's a link for some basic operations: http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/QGIS_GRASS_Cookbook
R is free and open source and easy to use. Also has a large community of developers and many documentation. With R you never need any proprietary software.
Put on Google "spatial pattern analysis in r" and take a look.
Also take a look on:
1. https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Spatial.html
2. http://www.r-bloggers.com/the-power-of-ggplot2-in-arcgis-the-plotting-toolbox/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RBloggers+%28R+bloggers%29
Hello
While agreeing with all the comments, I have one more suggestion. You can also try DIVA-GIS . It is a free computer program for mapping and geographic data analysis (a geographic information system (GIS). With DIVA-GIS you can make maps of the world, or of a very small area, using, for example, state boundaries, rivers, a satellite image.
You can download at
http://diva-gis.software.informer.com/7.5/
All the best.
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