Index
A
- A* algorithm
- URL / Least cost path analysis
- Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER)
- about / Elevation data
- ArcGIS
- about / Computer-aided drafting, ArcGIS
- URL / ArcGIS
- ArcSDE
- ASCII grid files
- about / ASCII Grid files
- reading / Reading grids
- writing / Writing grids
- ASCII grids
- about / ASCII Grids
- asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)
- attribute selections
- about / Attribute selections
- AutoCAD
- about / Computer-aided drafting
- Automated Identification System (AIS)
- about / Using GPS data
- Automated Remote Sensing (ARS)
- about / Classifying images
B
- band math
- about / Band math
- batteries included standard library / FTP
- BeautifulSoup documentation
- URL / Building XML
- Binary Large Objects (BLOBs)
- about / Raster data
- Bitmap (BMP)
- about / JPEG, GIF, BMP, and PNG
- BMP format
- about / JPEG, GIF, BMP, and PNG
C
- CAD files
- about / CAD files
- Canada Geographic Information System (CGIS)
- about / Geographic information systems
- reference link / Geographic information systems
- Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS)
- about / Oracle spatial and graph
- Cartesian coordinate system
- about / Measuring distance
- Catalog Service for the Web (CSW)
- about / Metadata, Metadata management
- CatMDEdit
- about / CatMDEdit
- change detection
- about / Change detection, Change detection
- example / Change detection
- choropleth map
- Comma-Separated Value (CSV) / The Python urllib module
- Comma Separated Values (CSV)
- about / Vector data
- compressed formats
- about / Compressed formats
- computational geometry
- about / Computational geometry
- PROJ.4 projection library / The PROJ.4 projection library
- Computational Geometry Algorithms Library (CGAL) / CGAL
- Java Topology Suite (JTS) / JTS
- Geometry Engine - Open Source (GEOS) / GEOS
- PostGIS / PostGIS
- spatially-enabled databases / Other spatially-enabled databases
- SpatiaLite / SpatiaLite
- routing / Routing
- Computational Geometry Algorithms Library (CGAL)
- computer-aided design (CAD)
- about / CAD files
- computer-aided drafting (CAD)
- about / Computer-aided drafting
- computer programming
- for geospatial analysis / Geospatial analysis and computer programming
- Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM)
- about / Metadata
- coordinate conversion
- about / Coordinate conversion
- CORONA program
- about / Remote sensing
D
- data access
- about / Data access
- Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) / GDAL
- OGR / OGR
- database management system (DBMS)
- about / Spatial databases
- data formats
- overview / An overview of common data formats
- data structures
- about / Data structures
- common traits / Common traits
- geolocation information / Geolocation
- subject information / Subject information
- datum
- about / Measuring distance
- dbfpy
- about / dbfpy
- URL / dbfpy, Merging shapefiles with dbfpy
- shapefiles, merging with / Merging shapefiles with dbfpy
- Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART) / FTP
- Delaunay triangulation
- Department of the Interior (DOI)
- about / Remote sensing
- desktop tools
- about / Desktop tools (including visualization)
- Quantum GIS (QGIS) / Quantum GIS
- OpenEV / OpenEV
- GRASS GIS / GRASS GIS
- uDig / uDig
- gvSIG / gvSIG
- OpenJUMP / OpenJUMP
- Google Earth / Google Earth
- NASA World Wind / NASA World Wind
- ArcGIS / ArcGIS
- Digital Elevation Model (DEM)
- about / Elevation data, Writing grids
- Dijkstra's algorithm
- URL / Least cost path analysis
- distance
- measuring / Measuring distance
- measuring, with Pythagorean theorem / Pythagorean theorem
- measuring, with Haversine formula / Haversine formula
- measuring, with Vincenty's formula / Vincenty's formula
- dot density map
- about / Creating images for visualization
- calculating / Dot density calculations
- dots per inch (dpi)
- about / Generalize
- Drawing (DWG) format
- about / CAD files
- Drawing Exchange Format (DXF)
- about / CAD files
E
- Earth Observation Satellite (EOSAT)
- about / Remote sensing
- Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS)
- about / Remote sensing
- ElementTree
- about / ElementTree
- XML, building / Building XML
- elevation contours
- creating / Creating elevation contours
- reference link / Creating elevation contours
- elevation data
- about / Elevation data
- Enhanced Compression Wavelet (ECW)
- about / Compressed formats
- Esri Network Analyst
- Esri shapefile vector dataset
- URL / File structure
- Eurasian Plate
- about / Measuring distance
- European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG)
- European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) code
- about / Reprojection
- European Terrestrial Reference System 1989 (ETRS89)
- about / Measuring distance
- exchangeable image file format (EXIF) tags / Geolocating photos
F
- false color images
- about / Remote sensing and color
- feature extraction
- about / Feature extraction
- Feature Manipulation Engine (FME)
- URL / Vector data
- Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
- about / Metadata
- field descriptors
- file structure
- about / File structure
- File Transfer Protocol (FTP) / Python networking libraries for acquiring data, FTP
- Fiona
- flood fill algorithm / Creating a flood inundation model
- flood fill function
- URL / The flood fill function
- flood inundation model
- creating / Creating a flood inundation model
- flood fill function / The flood fill function
- flood, making / Making a flood
- Folium
- URL / Reports from the field
- FWTools
- about / Installing GDAL
- URL / Installing GDAL
G
- GDAL
- installing / Installing GDAL
- installing, ways / Installing GDAL
- URL / Installing GDAL, Creating classes
- installing, on Windows / Windows
- installing, on Linux / Linux, Mac OS X
- about / GDAL
- sample raster satellite image, URL / GDAL
- gdal.org binaries
- URL / Linux
- geocoding
- about / Geocoding
- geographic information system (GIS)
- concepts / Geographic information system concepts
- thematic maps / Thematic maps
- spatial databases / Spatial databases
- spatial indexing / Spatial indexing
- metadata / Metadata
- map projections / Map projections
- rendering / Rendering
- geographic information systems
- about / Geographic information systems
- Geographic Markup Language (GML)
- Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS)
- about / Geographic information systems
- GeoJSON
- about / GeoJSON
- geojson module / The geojson module
- Geometry Engine - Open Source (GEOS) / Well-known text (WKT)
- GeoNetwork
- about / GeoNetwork
- URL / GeoNetwork
- GeoPandas
- geopy module
- about / Vincenty's formula
- URL / Vincenty's formula
- geospatial analysis
- about / Geospatial analysis and our world
- to disaster relief / Beyond disasters
- URL / Beyond disasters
- history / History of geospatial analysis
- and computer programming / Geospatial analysis and computer programming
- with object-oriented programming / Object-oriented programming for geospatial analysis
- importance / Importance of geospatial analysis
- Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL)
- about / Computer-aided drafting, Raster data, GDAL
- URL / Raster data, GDAL
- URL, for projects / GDAL
- GIF format
- about / JPEG, GIF, BMP, and PNG
- Global Positioning System (GPS)
- Goode homolosine projection
- Google Earth
- about / Google Earth
- URL / Google Earth
- GPS data
- using / Using GPS data
- GPS Exchange Format (GPX) / Building XML
- URL / Building XML
- GPS report
- about / A typical GPS report
- GPX-Reporter.py
- working with / Working with GPX-Reporter.py
- goals, defining / Stepping through the program
- initial setup / The initial setup
- utility functions, using / Working with utility functions
- GPX file, parsing / Parsing the GPX
- bounding box, obtaining / Getting the bounding box
- map, downloading / Downloading map and elevation images
- elevation images, downloading / Downloading map and elevation images
- hillshade, creating / Creating the hillshade
- maps, creating / Creating maps
- elevation, measuring / Measuring the elevation
- distance, measuring / Measuring the distance
- weather data, retrieving / Retrieving weather data
- GPX file
- graphical user interface (GUI)
- about / Geographic information systems
- GRASS GIS
- Great Circle distance
- about / Haversine formula
- GRIB
- about / Raster data
- grid
- creating, from Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) / Creating a grid from LIDAR
- GRID
- about / Geographic information systems
- grids, spatial indexing
- about / Grids
- gvSIG
- gvSIG Community Edition (gvSIG CE)
- about / gvSIG
H
- Haversine formula
- distance, measuring with / Haversine formula
- HDF5
- about / Raster data
- histogram
- about / Histogram
- histograms
- creating / Creating histograms
- histogram stretch
- performing / Performing a histogram stretch
- Homebrew
- URL / Mac OS X
- HSV values
- about / Using PIL to visualize LIDAR
I
- image bands
- swapping / Swapping image bands
- images
- creating, for visualization / Creating images for visualization
- clipping / Clipping images
- classifying / Classifying images
- features, extracting / Extracting features from images
- indexing algorithms
- about / Indexing algorithms
- R-tree index / Indexing algorithms, R-tree index
- Quadtree index / Quadtree index
- Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE)
- about / Metadata
- integrated development environment (IDE)
- about / uDig
- interactive web map
- creating / Reports from the field
- International Geophysical Year (IGY)
- about / Remote sensing
- ISO 19115-1
- about / Metadata
- ISO 19115-2
- about / Metadata
J
- JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) libraries
- about / Python JSON libraries
- json module / The json module
- geojson module / The geojson module
- Java Topology Suite (JTS)
- Java Unified Mapping Platform (JUMP)
- about / OpenJUMP
- JPEG format
- about / JPEG, GIF, BMP, and PNG
- json module / The json module
K
- Keyhole Markup Language (KML)
- about / Google Earth
- Keyhole Markup Language (KML) files
- Keyhole Markup Language (KML) format
L
- Landsat-1
- about / Remote sensing
- Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM)
- about / Remote sensing
- least cost path analysis
- about / Least cost path analysis
- test grid, setting up / Setting up the test grid
- A* algorithm / The simple A* algorithm
- test path, generating / Generating the test path
- test output, viewing / Viewing the test output
- real-world example / The real-world example
- least cost path analysis, real-world example
- grid, loading / Loading the grid
- helper functions, defining / Defining the helper functions
- real-world A* algorithm / The real-world A* algorithm
- real-world path, generating / Generating a real-world path
- Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW)
- about / Compressed formats
- LIDAR Exchange Format (LAS)
- about / Point cloud data
- Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR)
- about / Point cloud data, Working with LIDAR
- grid, creating / Creating a grid from LIDAR
- visualizing, with Python Imaging Library (PIL) / Using PIL to visualize LIDAR
- triangulated irregular network, creating / Creating a triangulated irregular network
- line direction
- calculating / Calculating line direction
- Linux
- GDAL, installing / Linux
- lxml
- URL / Building XML
M
- Mac OS X
- GDAL, installing / Mac OS X
- MacPorts
- URL / Mac OS X
- map projections
- about / Map projections
- markup / Python markup and tag-based parsers
- markup-based formats
- math module
- about / Calculating line direction
- Mesonet system
- about / Storm chasing
- URL / Storm chasing
- metadata
- about / Metadata, Metadata
- management / Metadata management
- GeoNetwork / GeoNetwork
- CatMDEdit / CatMDEdit
- Microsoft SQL Server
- about / Microsoft SQL Server
- URL / Microsoft SQL Server
- minidom module
- about / The minidom module
- URL / The minidom module
- Mississippi Transverse Mercator (MSTM) projection
- about / Pythagorean theorem
- Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database (MrSID)
- about / Compressed formats
- Multispectral Scanner (MSS)
- about / Remote sensing
- myGrid.asc grid file
- URL / Reading grids
- myjson.com
- URL / Reports from the field
- MySQL
N
- NASA World Wind
- about / NASA World Wind
- URL / NASA World Wind
- National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA)
- about / Using GPS data
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- about / Remote sensing
- Network Common Data Form (NetCDF)
- about / Raster data
- networking libraries, Python
- used, for data acquiring / Python networking libraries for acquiring data
- urllib package / The Python urllib module
- urllib module / The Python urllib module
- FTP / FTP
- ZIP / ZIP and TAR files
- TAR files / ZIP and TAR files
- NetworkX (NX)
- URL / Routing along streets
- NextBus
- vehicles, tracking / Tracking vehicles
- URL / Tracking vehicles
- agency list, obtaining / The NextBus agency list
- route list, obtaining / The NextBus route list
- vehicle locations, tracking / NextBus vehicle locations
- locations, mapping / Mapping NextBus locations
- Nextbus
- about / Tracking vehicles
- URL / Tracking vehicles
- NMEA format
- URL / Using GPS data
- Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
- about / Images as data, Creating a Normalized Difference Vegetative Index
- framework, setting up / Setting up the framework
- data, loading / Loading the data
- shapefile, rasterizing / Rasterizing the shapefile
- bands, clipping / Clipping the bands
- formula, using / Using the NDVI formula
- Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), classifying
- about / Classifying the NDVI
- functions, additional / Additional functions
- NDVI, loading / Loading the NDVI
- NDVI, preparing / Preparing the NDVI
- classes, classes / Creating classes
- NumPy
O
- object-oriented programming
- for geospatial analysis / Object-oriented programming for geospatial analysis
- Odyssey project
- about / Geographic information systems
- OGC services
- URL / Web services
- OGR
- URL / Vector data, OGR
- about / OGR, OGR
- OpenEV / GDAL
- OpenEV (FWTools)
- about / Change detection
- Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
- OpenJUMP
- OpenLayers
- Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) / Installing GDAL
- OpenStreetMap
- OpenStreetMap (OSM)
- Open Street Map (OSM) format
- OpenStreetMap project
- Oracle Spatial and Graph
- about / Oracle spatial and graph
- URL / Oracle spatial and graph
- OSGeo4W
- about / Installing GDAL
- URL / Installing GDAL
- overviews
- about / Overviews
P
- Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS)
- about / Metadata management
- URL / Metadata management
- pgRouting
- photos
- geolocating / Geolocating photos
- PNGCanvas / PNGCanvas
- PNG format
- about / JPEG, GIF, BMP, and PNG
- point cloud
- about / Working with LIDAR
- point cloud data
- about / Point cloud data
- point in polygon formula
- about / Point in polygon formula
- point shapefile
- URL / Reprojection
- PostGIS
- PROJ.4 projection library
- pycsw Python library
- URL / Metadata
- PyFPDF
- about / PyFPDF
- PyMySQL
- pynmea module
- URL / Using GPS data
- PyPI GDAL
- URL / Installing GDAL
- PyProj
- URL / Reprojection
- PyShp
- about / PyShp
- Pythagorean theorem
- distance, measuring with / Pythagorean theorem
- Python
- used, for creating SimpleGIS / Getting started with Python
- URL / Getting started with Python
- third-party modules, installing / Installing third-party Python modules
- URL, for download / Installing third-party Python modules
- networking libraries, for acquiring data / Python networking libraries for acquiring data
- tag-based parsers / Python markup and tag-based parsers
- markup / Python markup and tag-based parsers
- minidom module / The minidom module
- documentation, URL / ElementTree
- JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) libraries / Python JSON libraries
- Python Extension Packages
- URL / Windows
- Python Imaging Library (PIL) / NumPy, PIL
- about / Choropleth maps, Storm chasing
- Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR), visualizing / Using PIL to visualize LIDAR
- Python OWSLib package
- Python Package Index (PyPI) / Installing third-party Python modules
Q
- Quadtree index
- about / Quadtree index
- Quantum GIS (QGIS)
- about / Geographic information systems, Quantum GIS, Clipping images
- URL / Quantum GIS
R
- R-tree index
- about / R-tree index
- reference link / R-tree index
- radians
- reference link / Pythagorean theorem
- Radio Corporation of America (RCA)
- about / Remote sensing
- raster data
- about / Common raster data concepts, An overview of common data formats, Raster data
- band math / Band math
- change detection / Change detection
- histogram / Histogram
- feature extraction / Feature extraction
- supervised classification / Supervised classification
- unsupervised classification / Unsupervised classification
- Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) files / TIFF files
- JPEG format / JPEG, GIF, BMP, and PNG
- GIF format / JPEG, GIF, BMP, and PNG
- BMP format / JPEG, GIF, BMP, and PNG
- PNG format / JPEG, GIF, BMP, and PNG
- compressed formats / Compressed formats
- ASCII grids / ASCII Grids
- world files / World files
- ray casting algorithm
- about / Point in polygon
- Ray Casting method
- about / Point in polygon formula
- real-time weather map
- creating / Storm chasing
- Red, Green, and Blue (RGB)
- relational database management system (RDBMS)
- about / Spatial databases
- remote sensing
- about / Remote sensing
- concepts / Remote sensing concepts
- images, as data / Images as data
- color / Remote sensing and color
- Representational State Transfer (REST) API
- about / Tracking vehicles
- Representational State Transfer (REST) services
- about / Web services
- reprojection
- about / Reprojection
- Resource Description Framework (RDF)
- about / CatMDEdit
- retrieve() method / The Python urllib module
- Return Beam Vidicon (RBV) sensor
- about / Remote sensing
- routing
- about / Routing
- Esri Network Analyst / Esri Network Analyst and Spatial Analyst
- Spatial Analyst / Esri Network Analyst and Spatial Analyst
- pgRouting / pgRouting
- routing along streets / Routing along streets
S
- Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
- selections
- performing / Performing selections
- point in polygon formula / Point in polygon formula
- bounding box selections / Bounding Box Selections
- attribute selections / Attribute selections
- shaded relief
- creating / Creating a shaded relief
- shapefile
- ZIP file, URL / Well-known text (WKT)
- shapefiles
- about / Shapefiles
- URL / Shapefiles
- file formats / Shapefiles
- editing / Editing shapefiles
- accessing / Accessing the shapefile
- attributes, reading / Reading shapefile attributes
- geometry, reading / Reading shapefile geometry
- modifying / Changing a shapefile
- fields, adding / Adding fields
- merging / Merging shapefiles
- merging, with dbfpy / Merging shapefiles with dbfpy
- splitting / Splitting shapefiles
- subsetting, spatially / Subsetting spatially
- Shapely / Well-known text (WKT), Shapely
- Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
- about / Elevation data
- Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) dataset / Creating a flood inundation model
- SimpleGIS
- creating / Creating the simplest possible Python GIS
- creating, with Python / Getting started with Python
- building / Building SimpleGIS
- running / Step by step
- software development kit (SDK)
- about / NASA World Wind
- Space Imaging
- about / Remote sensing
- Space Shuttle Endeavour
- about / Elevation data
- Spatial Analyst
- Spatial Database Option (SDO)
- about / Oracle spatial and graph
- spatial databases
- about / Spatial databases
- Spatial Data Engine (SDE)
- about / ArcSDE
- spatial indexing
- about / Spatial indexing, Spatial indexing
- indexing algorithms / Indexing algorithms
- grids / Grids
- SpatiaLite
- about / SpatiaLite
- URL / SpatiaLite
- spatially-enabled databases
- about / Other spatially-enabled databases
- Oracle Spatial and Graph / Oracle spatial and graph
- ArcSDE / ArcSDE
- Microsoft SQL Server / Microsoft SQL Server
- MySQL / MySQL
- spatial reference
- Spectral Python (SPy)
- about / Spectral Python
- URL / Spectral Python
- SPOT-1 satellite
- about / Elevation data
- spreadsheets
- using / Using spreadsheets
- Sputnik 1 satellite
- about / Remote sensing
- ST (spatial type)
- about / Oracle spatial and graph
- StaticMapLite
- Structured Query Language (SQL)
- about / Spatial databases
- supervised classification
- about / Supervised classification
- supervised classifications
- about / Classifying images
T
- tag-based formats
- tag-based parsers / Python markup and tag-based parsers
- Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) files
- about / TIFF files
- TanDEM-X satellite
- about / Elevation data
- TAR files / ZIP and TAR files
- TerraSAR-X satellite
- about / Elevation data
- TerraServer
- thematic maps
- about / Thematic maps
- third-party modules, Python
- installing / Installing third-party Python modules
- GDAL, installing / Installing GDAL
- thresholding
- about / Extracting features from images
- TIFF image standard / Geolocating photos
- Tkinter
- Tobler's First Law of Geography
- about / Measuring distance
- travelling salesman problem (TSP)
- triangulated irregular network (TIN)
- Triangulated Irregular Networks (TINs)
- about / Oracle spatial and graph
U
- uDig
- Uniform Resource Locator (URL) / Python networking libraries for acquiring data
- United States Geological Survey (USGS) / The Python urllib module
- Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)
- about / Coordinate conversion
- URL / Coordinate conversion
- unsupervised classification
- about / Unsupervised classification
- unsupervised classifications
- about / Classifying images
- urllib.request.urlopen() method / The Python urllib module
- urllib package / The Python urllib module
- Ushahidi
- Ushahidi API
- utility functions
- using / Working with utility functions
V
- vector data
- about / An overview of common data formats, Vector data
- shapefiles / Shapefiles
- CAD files / CAD files
- markup-based formats / Tag-based and markup-based formats
- tag-based formats / Tag-based and markup-based formats
- GeoJSON / GeoJSON
- vector GIS
- about / Common vector GIS concepts
- data structures / Data structures
- buffer operation / Buffer
- dissolve operation / Dissolve
- generalize / Generalize
- intersection operation / Intersection
- merge operation / Merge
- point, in polygon / Point in polygon
- union operation / Union
- join operation / Join
- geospatial rules, for polygons / Geospatial rules about polygons
- Vincenty's formula
- distance, measuring with / Vincenty's formula
- virtualenv
- visualization
- images, creating / Creating images for visualization
W
- WeatherUnderground
- Web Feature Service (WFS)
- Web Mapping Service (WMS)
- about / Storm chasing
- Web Map Service (WMS)
- Web Mercator
- about / Map projections
- Web services
- about / Web services
- Well-known binary (WKB) / Well-known text (WKT)
- Well-Known Text (WKT)
- about / Map projections
- well-known text (WKT)
- well-known text (WKT) format
- wheel format / Windows
- Windows
- GDAL, installing / Windows
- WorldDEM
- about / Elevation data
- world files
- about / World files
- World Wind Java
- about / NASA World Wind
X
- XML parsing
- URL / The minidom module
- XPath
- URL / ElementTree
Z
- ZIP / ZIP and TAR files