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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, you learned about the hierarchy of geospatial analysis software. You also learned a framework for approaching the hundreds of existing geospatial software packages and libraries, by categorizing them into one or more major functions, including data access, computational geometry, raster processing, visualization, and metadata management.

We also examined commonly used foundation libraries, including GDAL, OGR, PROJ, and GEOS, which are found again and again in geospatial software. You can approach any new piece of geospatial software, trace it back to these core libraries, and then ask, what is the value added? to gain a better understanding of the package. If the software isn't using one of these libraries, you need to ask, why are these developers going against the grain? in order to understand what that system brings to the table.

Python was only...