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ISRC PY4EO Course

This is an advanced course of Python applications in remote sensing. You can find the syllabus here.


What we cover:

1- Learn how to read metadata from .geojson files using JSON library and show the results as a map or on the plot.

2- Learn how to manipulate image datasets and prepare them for machine learning or deep learning procedures.

3- Read remote sensing high resolution images and perform change detection methodologies to create a change map.

4- Read Landsat-8 images with Rasterio/GDAL and show the results on a map using Cartopy.

5- Read point cloud datasets in either las/laz formats using laspy and show the point cloud in a 3D plot.

6- Manipulate the point cloud dataset using its attributes such as classification, intensity, etc.

7- Introduce ICESat-2 data and read its photon heights product with python and display the graphs. It's analysis-ready!

8- Become familiar with satellite's attitude and position information which is broadcast to ground stations (case study: NASA's ACE satellite).

9- Show the path of the satellite around the Earth and around the Sun.

10- Analyze the position and velocity of a spacecraft in solar system.


Useful links

  1. Matplotlib tutorial.
  2. Cartopy introduction and its gallery.
  3. Rasterio as an alternative for GDAL.
  4. GDAL as the most complete geospatial library.
  5. Steps to add Open Street Map (OSM) as a background layer to QGIS.
  6. PDAL, a library for point cloud processing in Python.
  7. Laspy helps you read and write .LAS/.LAZ files in Python.
  8. netCDF4 is a library for working with .nc files. It can be used for some EO data manipulation.
  9. h55py is an standard package which enables you to read HDF files. EO datasets are usually distributed in this format.
  10. HDFView is a software for reading .h5 (HDF) files.
  11. Panoply is a software package for visualizing climate data such as netCDF4 files. Here's another tutorial link for this software.