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Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python - Third Edition

By : Joel Lawhead
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Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python - Third Edition

By: Joel Lawhead

Overview of this book

Geospatial analysis is used in almost every domain you can think of, including defense, farming, and even medicine. With this systematic guide, you'll get started with geographic information system (GIS) and remote sensing analysis using the latest features in Python. This book will take you through GIS techniques, geodatabases, geospatial raster data, and much more using the latest built-in tools and libraries in Python 3.7. You'll learn everything you need to know about using software packages or APIs and generic algorithms that can be used for different situations. Furthermore, you'll learn how to apply simple Python GIS geospatial processes to a variety of problems, and work with remote sensing data. By the end of the book, you'll be able to build a generic corporate system, which can be implemented in any organization to manage customer support requests and field support personnel.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Section 1: The History and the Present of the Industry
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Section 2: Geospatial Analysis Concepts
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Section 3: Practical Geospatial Processing Techniques

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to create three real-world products, which are used every day in government, science, and industry. Apart from where this analysis is typically done with black box packages—costing thousands of dollars—we were able to use very minimal and free cross-platform Python tools. And in addition to the examples in this chapter, you now have some more reusable functions, algorithms, and processing frameworks for other advanced analyses, which will allow you to solve new problems that you come across in fields such as transportation, agriculture, and weather.

In the next chapter, we'll move into a relatively new area of geospatial analysis: real-time and near real-time data.