Working with Spatio-temporal data in Python: Glossary

Key Points

Introduction

  • Data formats to exchange, archive and disseminate scientific results
Data Formats in Environmental Sciences

  • raster formats: GeoTIFF, netCDF, HDF data formats

  • vector formats: shapefile, GeoJSON data format
Intro to Coordinate Reference Systems & Spatial Projections

  • Coordinate Reference Systems
Plotting spatio-temporal data with Python

  • matplotlib and basemap
Data analysis with python

  • scipy library
Visualize and Publish with Python

  • Get an overview of nbviewer
Handling very large files in Python

  • Strategies to manipulate large files in python

  • Dask: a flexible parallel computing library for analytic computing

Glossary

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