Mapping with Satellite Data (Beyond Landsat and Sentinel-2)
Robert Simmon
National and international scientific agencies like NASA, NOAA, and the ESA have been monitoring the Earth at a global scale for decades. The data they have collected include specialized measurements like land cover classification, ocean color, vegetation health, and solar energy absorbed at the Earth’s surface. Unfortunately, much of this data is rarely mapped, in part because it is stored and distributed in scientific formats that can be difficult or impossible to read with off the shelf tools. In this talk I will show how to use GDAL to extract data from Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) into formats readable by comm...