Geoprocessing with Python - Softcover

Garrard, Chris

 
9781617292149: Geoprocessing with Python
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1617292141 ISBN 13: 9781617292149
Verlag: Manning, 2016

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Summary

Geoprocessing with Python teaches you how to use the Python programming language, along with free and open source tools, to read, write, and process geospatial data.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Technology

This book is about the science of reading, analyzing, and presenting geospatial data programmatically, using Python. Thanks to dozens of open source Python libraries and tools, you can take on professional geoprocessing tasks without investing in expensive proprietary packages like ArcGIS and MapInfo. The book shows you how.

About the Book

Geoprocessing with Python teaches you how to access available datasets to make maps or perform your own analyses using free tools like the GDAL, NumPy, and matplotlib Python modules. Through lots of hands-on examples, you’ll master core practices like handling multiple vector file formats, editing geometries, applying spatial and attribute filters, working with projections, and performing basic analyses on vector data. The book also covers how to manipulate, resample, and analyze raster data, such as aerial photographs and digital elevation models.

What's Inside

  • Geoprocessing from the ground up
  • Read, write, process, and analyze raster data
  • Visualize data with matplotlib
  • Write custom geoprocessing tools
  • Three additional appendixes available online

About the Reader

To read this book all you need is a basic knowledge of Python or a similar programming language.

About the Author
Chris Garrard works as a developer for Utah State University and teaches a graduate course on Python programming for GIS.
Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Python basics
  3. Reading and writing vector data
  4. Working with different vector file formats
  5. Filtering data with OGR
  6. Manipulating geometries with OGR
  7. Vector analysis with OGR
  8. Using spatial reference systems
  9. Reading and writing raster data
  10. Working with raster data
  11. Map algebra with NumPy and SciPy
  12. Map classification
  13. Visualizing data

      14. Appendixes

  • A - Installation
  • B - References
  • C - OGR - online only
  • D - OSR - online only
  • E - GDAL - online only

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Chris Garrard works as a developer for Utah State University and teaches a graduate course on Python programming for GIS.

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Verlag
Manning
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1617292141
ISBN 13 
9781617292149
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
360
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