Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python : master GIS and remote sensing analysis using Python with these easy to follow tutorials / Joel Lawhead.

"This is a tutorial-style book that helps you to perform Geospatial and GIS analysis with Python and its tools/libraries. This book will first introduce various Python-related tools/packages in the initial chapters before moving towards practical usage, examples, and implementation in specialized kinds of Geospatial data analysis. This book is for anyone who wants to understand digital mapping and analysis and who uses Python or another scripting language for automation or crunching data manually. This book primarily targets Python developers, researchers, and analysts who want to perform Geospatial, modeling, and GIS analysis with Python."--Provided by publisher.

Preface -- Chapter 1: Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python -- Chapter 2: Geospatial Data -- Chapter 3: The Geospatial Technology Landscape -- Chapter 4: Geospatial Python Toolbox -- Chapter 5: Python and Geographic Information Systems -- Chapter 6: Python and Remote Sensing -- Chapter 7: Python and elevation data -- Chapter 8: Advances Python geospatial modelling -- Chapter 9: Real-time data -- Chapter 10: Putting it all togetherCover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python; Geospatial analysis and our world; Beyond politics; History of geospatial analysis; Geographic Information Systems; Remote sensing; Elevation data; Computer-aided drafting; Geospatial analysis and computer programming; Object-oriented programming for geospatial analysis; Importance of geospatial analysis; Geographic Information System concepts; Thematic maps; Spatial databases; Spatial Indexing; ...