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Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python

By : Joel Lawhead
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Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python

By: Joel Lawhead

Overview of this book

Geospatial Analysis is used in almost every field you can think of from medicine, to defense, to farming. This book will guide you gently into this exciting and complex field. It walks you through the building blocks of geospatial analysis and how to apply them to influence decision making using the latest Python software. Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python, 2nd Edition uses the expressive and powerful Python 3 programming language to guide you through geographic information systems, remote sensing, topography, and more, while providing a framework for you to approach geospatial analysis effectively, but on your own terms. We start by giving you a little background on the field, and a survey of the techniques and technology used. We then split the field into its component specialty areas: GIS, remote sensing, elevation data, advanced modeling, and real-time data. This book will teach you everything you need to know about, Geospatial Analysis from using a particular software package or API to using generic algorithms that can be applied. This book focuses on pure Python whenever possible to minimize compiling platform-dependent binaries, so that you don’t become bogged down in just getting ready to do analysis. This book will round out your technical library through handy recipes that will give you a good understanding of a field that supplements many a modern day human endeavors.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 10. Putting It All Together

In this book, we touched on all the important aspects of geospatial analysis and used a variety of different techniques in Python to analyze different types of geospatial data. In this final chapter, we will draw on nearly all of the topics that we have covered to produce one real-world product that has become very popular: a GPS route analysis report.

These reports are common to dozens of mobile app services, GPS watches, in-car navigation systems, and other GPS-based tools. A GPS typically records location, time, and elevation. From these values, we can derive a vast amount of ancillary information about what happened along the route on which that data was recorded. Fitness apps including RunKeeper.com, MapMyRun.com, Strava.com, and Nike Plus all use similar reports to present GPS-tracked exercise data from running, hiking, biking, or walking.

We will create one of these reports using Python. This program is nearly 500 lines of code, our longest yet, so...