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Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python

You're reading from   Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python Understand GIS fundamentals and perform remote sensing data analysis using Python 3.7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789959277
Length 456 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Joel Lawhead Joel Lawhead
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The History and the Present of the Industry FREE CHAPTER
2. Learning about Geospatial Analysis with Python 3. Learning Geospatial Data 4. The Geospatial Technology Landscape 5. Section 2: Geospatial Analysis Concepts
6. Geospatial Python Toolbox 7. Python and Geographic Information Systems 8. Python and Remote Sensing 9. Python and Elevation Data 10. Section 3: Practical Geospatial Processing Techniques
11. Advanced Geospatial Python Modeling 12. Real-Time Data 13. Putting It All Together 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Geospatial PDF

The Portable Document Format, or PDF, is a file format for storing and presenting digitally-formatted text and images in a cross-platform and application-independent way. PDF is a widely used document format that has also been extended to store geospatial information.

The PDF specification, starting with version 1.7, includes extensions for geospatial PDFs that map portions of the document to a physical space, also known as georeferencing. You can create points, lines, or polygons as geospatial geometries, which can also have attributes.

There are two methods for encoding geospatial information within a PDF. A company named TerraGo created a specification that has been adopted by the Open Geospatial Consortium as a best practice which is not a standard. That format is known as GeoPDF. The extensions that were proposed by Adobe Systems, which created the PDF specification...

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