Prepared by: Tom Hengl (OpenGeoHub) and Leandro Parente (OpenGeoHub)
Earth Observation, soil, terrain, land cover and land use, climate data are increasingly available for Africa for research and businesses. This tutorial explains: how to access the iSDAsoil property and nutrient maps for Africa and number of Sentinel-2 cloud-free bands and terrain variables, how to compute with it without a need to download terrabytes of data. A complete tutorial written using Rmarkdown is available here. To learn more about Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs and geocomputing in Python please visit also this tutorial.
iSDAsoil methodology and data
Innovative Solutions for Decision Agriculture Ltd (iSDA) is a social enterprise…
Prepared by: Leandro Parente (OpenGeoHub), Martijn Witjes (OpenGeoHub), Tom Hengl (OpenGeoHub), Codrina Maria Ilie (Terrasigna) and Martin Landa (CVUT Prague)
OpenGeoHub together with partners CVUT Prague, mundialis, Terrasigna, MultiOne and GiLAB, has released Open Data Science Europe data portal on 1st of March 2021. It comprises terabytes of gridded data available as Cloud-Optimized GeoTiffs and served via Geoserver. The project will collate, extend, harmonize, integrate, and distribute a wide range of freely available environmental and administrative data for Europe in the years to come. …
Perspectives from the OpenGeoHub 2020 Summer School
The key to achieving scientific advancements in health, development, and environmental issues really comes down to the idea that “good questions are taken as good questions no matter where they come from,” Edzer Pebesma of the Institute for Geoinformatics at the University of Münster, suggested as leading developers from the open geospatial software community gathered from August 16–22, 2020 at the Wageningen International Conference Centre, Netherlands, for the 16th OpenGeoHub Summer School.
As lecturers dove deep into the worlds of R (#rspatial) and Python, machine learning, remote sensing, data science, and applied geographic information systems, the conversation moved beyond mere…
On the critical role of remote sensing, legacy field observations, Data Science and reproducible research for monitoring environment
Co-authored by: Tom N. Collins, Ichsani Wheeler and Robert A. MacMillan
Since 2004, OpenStreetMap has been the main platform for building an Open Map of the world. More recently, the concept of building geo-information through distributed…
Originally published at https://towardsdatascience.com on May 25, 2019.
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