[SciPy-User] satellite imagery

[Tim Michelsen]

Hello,
I liked Jose's examples.
As I work with imagery here and there, I got interested and checked it 
out myself.

Here is what I found:

Howard Butler (http://twitter.com/howardbutler) had given a great 
tutorial together with Sean Gilles [3] at OSGEO 2005 [1] . 
Unfortunately, materials have been taken offline. I have 6 PDF files of 
these which I can mail you if you sent me a private mail.

Another one seems to be here:
Shoaib Burq - Open Source Python GIS Hacks
http://www.osdc.com.au/papers/tutorials.html#open
and materials at:
http://geospatial.nomad-labs.com/2006/12/05/open-source-developers-conference-2006-melbourne-australia/ 


On the other hand: why are you trying to reinvent?
FOSS4G or OSGEO have evolved as the body for this stuff:
* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Python_Library
* http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_and_Python
* more on the mailing list:
 
http://n2.nabble.com/forum/Search.jtp?forum=1837860&local=y&query=python
* nearly all programs at http://www.osgeo.org/ have a python or jython 
interface

others have gatherd around:
* http://pywps.wald.intevation.org/
* http://pywms.wald.intevation.org/

@Jose and others:
Jose did some stuff nice python & gdal - mpl stuff.
But generally, it seems that few people are working with python and 
imagery directly:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=satellite

The general GIS stuff gets more matches:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=browse&c=391

Here is what I found:
* http://cosmicproject.org/links.html
* [Image-SIG] working with multi-spectral imagery, PIL, and NumPy
    http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2007-May/004430.html
     => seems to have writen a tutorial.
* http://www.cs.unc.edu/~isenburg/lastools/
    for Python see:
    - http://mateusz.loskot.net/category/projects/liblas-projects/
    - http://liblas.org/ => http://liblas.org/wiki/PythonTutorial
    - http://pypi.python.org/pypi/libLAS
* http://geospatialpython.com/
* Case study
 
http://vnoel.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/bye-matlab-hello-python-thanks-sage/
* organisations
    http://wiki.python.org/moin/OrganizationsUsingPython
* Python in remote sensing: http://www.smhi.se/saf/about_py.pdf

[1] http://old-mapserver.gis.umn.edu/mum/agenda2005.html
[2] http://hobu.biz/index_html/OSGIS_hacks
[3] http://sgillies.net/blog / http://trac.gispython.org/lab

I'd like to ask you to summarise your findings also in a wiki. Either 
scipy cookbook or osgeo wiki.
At the osgeo lists / wiki you may also finde more infos.

Please keep us posted.

Regards,
Timmie