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Geospatial Development By Example with Python

By : Pablo Carreira
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Book Image

Geospatial Development By Example with Python

5 (1)
By: Pablo Carreira

Overview of this book

From Python programming good practices to the advanced use of analysis packages, this book teaches you how to write applications that will perform complex geoprocessing tasks that can be replicated and reused. Much more than simple scripts, you will write functions to import data, create Python classes that represent your features, and learn how to combine and filter them. With pluggable mechanisms, you will learn how to visualize data and the results of analysis in beautiful maps that can be batch-generated and embedded into documents or web pages. Finally, you will learn how to consume and process an enormous amount of data very efficiently by using advanced tools and modern computers’ parallel processing capabilities.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Geospatial Development By Example with Python
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Reviewers

Brylie Christopher Oxley enjoys working on technology projects that improve the human and environmental commons. He is dedicated to working for open source, open web, and open knowledge movements.

He regularly contributes to open source projects primarily built with web platform technologies, including a wellbeing visualization application for aging populations and a community portal for refugee support.

Vivek Kumar Singh is a research scholar at the center of atmospheric science, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT Delhi). He has completed his master's in technology in Remote Sensing and GIS from the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, ISRO, in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. He focused on the different applications of Remote Sensing and GIS using geocomputational modeling with satellite observations during his time in graduate school. His main research expertise is in the application of satellite remote sensing for air quality monitoring and assessment, urban heat island and remote sensing, and geographical systems around the world. He is also interested in researching the air quality in growing megacities, spatial and temporal trends in aerosols over urban regions, the radiative effects of aerosols, the development of statistical models to estimate surface level particulate matter air quality, aerosols and clouds data validation, and the retrieval of cloud products from UV satellite measurements. He is also an associate with the BhuNak science team on the development and validation of new GIS products for climate studies. He also currently participated in developing and conducting remote sensing technical workshops and capacity building activities for the BhuNak Program, where he teaches the application of satellite imagery to environmental decision-making activities with a focus on urban living quality.

Claudio Sparpaglione is a CTO at WalletSaver, an Italian startup rocking in the mobile phone tariff comparison landscape. His work experience includes the design and building of geospatial applications and web-oriented systems in the online advertisement industry. A passionate Pythonista and open-source advocate, he's a maintainer of the PyOWM project and actively involved in the community with contributions to projects such as Python-Requests and Reactive Manifesto. His main interests include high-scalable web architectures, APIs design, and cloud computing.