Sep 18-19, 2024
9:30 am - 05:00 pm CEST For Day 1, 9:15 am - 12:30 pm CEST for Day 2
Instructors: Robert Ohuru, Indupriya Mydur, Adhitya Bhawiyuga
Helpers: Jay Gohil, Jay Pandya
Python is one of the most popular programming languages for data science and analytics, with a large and steadily growing community in the field of Earth and Space Sciences. In this workshop, we will help participants with a working knowledge of Python to familiarize with the world of geospatial raster and vector data. We will introduce a set of tools from the Python ecosystem and show how these can be used to carry out practical geospatial data analysis tasks. In particular, we will consider satellite images and public geo-datasets and demonstrate how these can be opened, explored, manipulated, combined, and visualized using Python.
This workshop organized by the Center of Expertise in Big Geodata Science (CRIB) will cover the following aspects of geospatial data processing:
This is a pilot workshop, testing out a lesson that is still under development. The lesson authors would appreciate any feedback you can give them about the lesson content and suggestions for how it could be further improved.
Where: LA 2105, Langezijds, Hallenweg 8, Enschede. Get directions with OpenStreetMap or Google Maps.
When: Sep 18-19, 2024; 9:30 am - 05:00 pm CEST For Day 1, 9:15 am - 12:30 pm CEST for Day 2 Add to your Google Calendar.
Requirements: Participants must bring a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (listed below).
Accessibility: We are committed to making this workshop accessible to everybody. The workshop organizers have checked that:
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Contact: Please email j.h.gohil@utwente.nl or a.bhawiyuga@utwente.nl for more information.
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| 9:30 - 9:45 | Welcome and icebreaker |
| 9:45 - 10:00 | Introduction to raster, vector, and CRS |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Access satellite imagery using Python |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15 - 12:30 | Read and visualize raster data |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch break |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Vector data in Python |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Coffee break |
| 14:45 - 15:45 | Raster data preprocessing with rioxarray and geopandas |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Short break |
| 16:00 - 16:40 | Raster calculations in Python |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Wrap-up |
| 17:00 | End of Day 1 |
| 9:15 - 9:30 | Welcome and icebreaker |
| 9:30 - 10:45 | Calculating Zonal Statistics on Rasters |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 12:15 | Parallel raster computations using Dask |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Wrap-up |
| 12:30 | END |
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