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Chapter 1. Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python
This chapter is an overview of geospatial analysis and will cover the following topics:
- How geospatial analysis is impacting our world
- A history of geospatial analysis including Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing
- Reasons for using a programming language for geospatial analysis
- Importance of more people learning geospatial analysis
- GIS concepts
- Remote sensing concepts
- Creating the simplest possible GIS using Python
This book assumes some basic knowledge of Python, some IT literacy, and at least an awareness of geospatial analysis. This chapter provides a foundation in geospatial analysis, needed to attack any subject in the areas of remote sensing and GIS including the material in all the other chapters of the book.