Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python

Spectral Python

Spectral Python (SPy) is a very advanced Python package for remote sensing. It goes far beyond what you would typically do with GDAL and NumPy and focuses on hyperspectral processing for images which may have hundreds of bands. The basic package installs easily via PyPI but SPy can provide a fully windowed processing environment if you install some additional dependencies. The remote sensing we'll do in the rest of this book won't require SPy but it is worth mentioning here because it is a well-maintained, powerful package that is competitive with many commercial software products in this domain. You can find out more about SPy at the homepage here:

http://spectralpython.sourceforge.net/index.html