Open Source Geospatial Tools

This book focuses on the use of open source software for geospatial analysis. It provides concise solutions for analyzing and visualizing spatial data as well as demonstrates the effectiveness of the command line interface for handling geospatial data.

Contains practical tips (one-liners) for everyday geospatial data analysis Provides comprehensive tutorials and explanations on data handling for environmental applications Also applicable for automated large data processing Focuses exclusively on free open source geospatial software that includes: GDAL/OGR, Orfeo Toolbox, pktools and spdlib Serves as a tutorial for novice command line users and a reference guide for experienced users Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt

Introduction.- Vector data processing.- Raster data explained.- Introduction to GDAL utilities.- Manipulating raster data.- Indexed color images.- Image overviews, tiling and pyramids.- Image (re-)projections and merging.- Raster meets vector data.- Raster meets point data.- Virtual rasters and raster calculations.- Pktools.- Orfeo Toolbox.- Write your own geospatial utilities.- 3D point cloud data processing.- Case study on Vector Spatial analysis.- Multispectral land cover classification.- Case study on point data.- Conclusions and future outlook.