Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python

Importance of geospatial analysis

Geospatial analysis helps people make better decisions. It doesn't make the decision for you, but it can answer critical questions which are at the heart of the choice to be made and often cannot be answered any other way. Until recently geospatial technology and data were tools available only to governments, and well-funded researchers. But in the last decade data have become much more widely available and software much more accessible to anyone.

In addition to freely available government satellite imagery, many local governments now conduct aerial photo surveys and make the data available online. The ubiquitous Google Earth provides a cross-platform spinning globe view of the Earth with satellite and aerial data, ...