Welcome!
Welcome to GEOG250 – Introduction to Geospatial Analysis with Python. This course will introduce you to the Python coding language using geospatial datasets: satellite imagery, census information, street maps, and environmental data.
Lectures: Mondays and Fridays from 9:30 – 10:20 AM
Labs: Wednesdays from 8:30 – 11:20 AM
| __Date__ | Description | |
| 08-Sep | Lecture 0 | Introductions, course outline and expectations. |
| 11-Sep | Lecture 1 | Fundamentals of Programming |
| 13-Sep | Lab 0 | Intro to the GIS Lab, IDEs (Posit Workbench & Jupyter), Python Basics, Git |
| 15-Sep | Lecture 2 | Projections & Pseudo Code |
| 18-Sep | Lecture 3 | Matplotlib |
| 20-Sep | Lab 1 | Python introduction: syntax, packages, structure. Simple data I/O, introduction to matplo |
| 22-Sep | Quiz 1 | Quiz 1 – Programming Fundamentals |
| 25-Sep | Lecture 4 | Advanced Plotting |
| 27-Sep | Lab 2 | IPython Widgets (Leaflet) |
| 29-Sep | Stat | University closed in lieu of National Day for Truth and Reconciliaiton |
| 02-Oct | Lecture 5 | Vector Data 1 |
| 04-Oct | Lab 3 | Vector data: opening, visualizing, basic analysis. Cartopy, geopandas |
| 06-Oct | Drop-in | Homework drop in. Updated from Sylabus |
| 09-Oct | Stat | Thanksgiving Day |
| 11-Oct | Lab 4 | More vector data 2: projections, vector operations, more visualization |
| 13-Oct | Quiz 2 | Quiz 2 – Vector Data |
| 16-Oct | Lecture 6 | Raster Data 1 |
| 18-Oct | Lab 5 | Raster Data (IO, Visualization) |
| 20-Oct | Lab Drop In | Bring any questions you have! |
| 23-Oct | Lecture 7 | Raster Data 2 |
| 25-Oct | Lab 6 | Raster Data (Normalized Difference Indexes) |
| 27-Oct | Quiz 3 | Quiz 3 – Raster Data |
| 30-Oct | Canceled | Lab Closed |
| 01-Nov | Lab 7 | Raster Data (Zonal Stats) |
| 03-Nov | Lecture 8 | API’s |
| 06-Nov | Lecture 9 | Analysis in the Cloud |
| 08-Nov | Lab 8 | Raster Data (Composites, cloud free on the cloud) |
| 10-Nov | Stat | University closed in lieu of Remembrance Day |
| 13-Nov | Lab Drop In | Bring Any Questions you have, highly encouraged to finish Lab 8 today |
| 15-Nov | Projects | Start Projects |
| 17-Nov | Quiz 4 | Quiz 4 – Zonal Stats and Cloud Analysis |
| 20-Nov | Lab Drop-In | Project Questions |
| 22-Nov | Projects | Project work time |
| 24-Nov | Lecture 10 | Optional code style lecture |
| 27-Nov | Lab Drop-In | Project Questions |
| 29-Nov | Projects | Project work time |
| 01-Dec | Lab Drop-In | Project Questions |
| 04-Dec | Lab Drop-In | Project Questions |
| 06-Dec | Projects | Project Presentations |