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Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python-Second Edition

Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python-Second Edition

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

Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python-Second Edition

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By: Joel Lawhead

Overview of this book

Geospatial Analysis is used in almost every field you can think of from medicine, to defense, to farming. This book will guide you gently into this exciting and complex field. It walks you through the building blocks of geospatial analysis and how to apply them to influence decision making using the latest Python software. Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python, 2nd Edition uses the expressive and powerful Python 3 programming language to guide you through geographic information systems, remote sensing, topography, and more, while providing a framework for you to approach geospatial analysis effectively, but on your own terms. We start by giving you a little background on the field, and a survey of the techniques and technology used. We then split the field into its component specialty areas: GIS, remote sensing, elevation data, advanced modeling, and real-time data. This book will teach you everything you need to know about, Geospatial Analysis from using a particular software package or API to using generic algorithms that can be applied. This book focuses on pure Python whenever possible to minimize compiling platform-dependent binaries, so that you don’t become bogged down in just getting ready to do analysis. This book will round out your technical library through handy recipes that will give you a good understanding of a field that supplements many a modern day human endeavors.
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Classifying images


Automated Remote Sensing (ARS)is rarely ever done in the visible spectrum. ARS is the processing of an image without any human input. The most commonly available wavelengths outside of the visible spectrum are infrared and near-infrared. The following scene is a thermal image (band 10) from a fairly recent Landsat 8 flyover of the U.S. Gulf Coast from New Orleans, Louisiana to Mobile, Alabama. The major natural features in the image are labeled so that you can orient yourself:

As every pixel in this image has a reflectance value, it is information. Python can see these values and pick out features in the same way that we intuitively do by grouping the related pixel values. We can colorize the pixels based on their relation to each other to simplify the image and view the related features. This technique is called classification.

Classification can range from fairly simple groupings based only on some value distribution algorithm derived from the histogram, to complex methods...

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