Awesome Geospatial List

A curated list of geospatial tools, data, tutorials, information, and more

Contents

• Tools
• Libraries
• Data
• Resources

Tools

Various awesome tools for geospatial work

• QGIS - A Free and Open Source Geographic Information System - Awesome for viewing raster and vector data.
• GIMP - For editing visual (non-analytic) raster products.
• GeoJSON.io - Online GeoJSON viewer/editor.

Libraries

Awesome libraries to support geospatial development

• GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library - C/C++ library with Python bindings and helpful command line tools for handling many raster and vector geospatial data formats.
• Rasterio - Python package for reading/writing raster datasets, based on GDAL.
• Shapely - Python package for manipulation and analysis of planar geometric objects, based on GEOS.
• GEOS - GEOS (Geometry Engine - Open Source) is a C++ port of the ​Java Topology Suite (JTS).

Data

Public Datasets

Data that is publicly available at no extra cost (access fees may apply for AWS/GCP)

• Copernicus - European Space Agency (ESA) provides vast amounts of public data, most notably Sentinel-1 for radar and Sentinel-2 for optical satellite data.
• Landsat - Earth-observation satellites from the USGS.
• AWS Earth - Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides several datasets, including Landsat 8, Sentinel-2, NEXRAD, OpenStreetMap, and more.

Resources

Websites

• GIS StackExchange - Question and answer (Q&A) site for geospatial.
• Gunter’s Space Page - Info about spacecraft, launch vehicles, and launches.
• GDAL Cheat Sheet - Cheat sheet for GDAL/OGR command-line tools.
• Python GDAL/OGR Cookbook - Simple code snippets on how to use the Python GDAL/OGR API.

Guides/Tutorials

• A Gentle Introduction to GDAL - A multi-part series on GDAL by Robert Simmon of Planet.

Videos/Talks

• An Introduction to GDAL - A talk giving an awesome introduction to GDAL by Robert Simmon of Planet (at OpenVisConf 2017).
• Python from Space: Analyzing Open Satellite Imagery Using the Python Ecosystem - Using Jupyter notebooks to do awesome things with satellite imagery by Katherine Scott of Planet (at PyCon 2017).

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License

To the extent possible under law, Jeremy Mayeres has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.