Introduction to Geospatial Raster and Vector Data with Python

Material for the EGU24 Short Course 6.4

Links

• Introductory slides
• Jupyter notebook
• Presentation (notebook)

Run the tutorial

Click on the following badge to run the tutotial on Google Colab (a Google account is required):

Run the tutorial locally

Clone and access this repository:

git clone https://github.com/esciencecenter-digital-skills/2024-04-15-geospatial-python-EGU.git
cd 2024-04-15-geospatial-python-EGU

In order to run the tutorial, some Python dependencies need to be installed. Python>=3.X is required (it can be downloaded from here).

It is best to install dependencies in an isolated environment, which can be created in the following way:

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Note that every time a new shell is started, one needs to run source venv/bin/activate to activate the environment.

Start JupyterLab by running:

jupyter-lab

JupyterLab should start in a new broweser window, if this does not happen navigate to this address: http://localhost:8888/lab

Open the notebook geospatial-python.ipynb using the file browser in the left tab.