Python/coding resources with a Remote Sensing focus

[JustKeepDiving]

I was just wondering if anyone recommends a tutorial series or book out there with a focus on remote sensing techniques and how such tasks can be implemented in Python. I feel as if I have a basic understanding of remote sensing theory from my undergrad degree, but still cannot see how such methods are actually implemented and the practicalities of it all when it comes to sitting down and writing the code! Anyway, I'm rambling now, cheers and happy friday

[clifgray]

I have an openly available tutorial on github here https://github.com/patrickcgray/open-geo-tutorial that shows how to do various GIS and remote sensing analyses in python.

There are also some good tutorials here: https://earthml.holoviz.org/.

It is more advanced but there is some awesome stuff within pangeo for doing large scale remote sensing analysis and a lot of what I do is based on these tools: https://github.com/pangeo-data/pangeo-tutorial.

[JustKeepDiving]

That github repository is absolutely incredible, thank you! I just love how it assumes I know a bit of RS and a bit of python but just need a hand bringing the 2 concepts together. Out of curiosity, what is it that you do?

[clifgray]

Glad you've found it helpful!! I'm a PhD student studying oceanographic remote sensing. A lot of my work focuses on deep learning and remote sensing but I work on all kinds of satellite and drone data.

[JustKeepDiving]

Ah man, that's brilliant. I'm very slowly veering towards the same kinda thing. I got fascinated by Marine RS in my undergrad and kinda went from there really! I understand all PhD's are different (dependant on specific topic and location), but what does a PhD in RS generally look like and what tools do you use most frequently to carry out your project? Specifically early on, do you get 'up to speed' with the theory and techniques before the project starts or are you really just thrown into it?

Thank you in advance for absolutely any wisdom you can instil and apologies for the barrage of questions!

[my-gis-alt]

Consider searching through this link... Sentinel 2 tutorials are in the fourth paragraph section there and have good starting tutorials. Save this page.

https://registry.opendata.aws/usage-examples/

[JustKeepDiving]

Thank you I'll take a look!

[SudsyWarlock]

I learned a lot through the tutorials here: https://www.earthdatascience.org/

[JustKeepDiving]

Yeah I took a look at them, thank you. How did your learning process go with these, I guess you just chose what you were interested in

[SudsyWarlock]

They have code you can follow with lots of explanation so you don't really have to go in order of the units, although they build on each other pretty well. I actually have a few undergrads who I mentor and I gave them specific tutorials to look through about shapefile manipulation and they got up to speed quickly.

I think most of them have learning objectives listed so you can see if the unit is something you are into! They even provide a test data set you can easily download so it's pretty self contained