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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 covered the foundations of remote sensing, including band swapping, histograms, image classification, feature extraction, and change detection. Like in the other chapters, we stayed as close to pure Python as possible, and where we compromised on this goal for processing speed, we limited the software libraries as much as possible to keep things simple. However, if you have the tools from this chapter installed, you really have a complete remote sensing package that is limited only by your desire to learn.

The techniques in this chapter are foundational to all remote sensing processes and will allow you to build more complex operations.

In the next chapter, we'll investigate elevation data. Elevation data doesn't fit squarely in GIS or remote sensing as it has elements of both types of processing.

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