Overview#

Remote storage media#

Rasterio: reads and writes GeoTIFF and other forms of raster datasets.
Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL): provides a low-level but more powerful API for reading and writing hundreds of data formats.
satpy: Easy to use API for sensors of satellite images like MODIS, Sentinel-2 etc.
sentinelsat: Find and download Copernicus Sentinel satellite imagery using command line or Python.
fiona: reads and writes *shp- and *json data and many other formats.
pyproj: Python interface to PROJ, a library for cartographic projections and coordinate transformations.
pyModis: Collection of Python scripts for downloading and mosaicking MODIS data.
Arcpy: is used by Esri ArcGIS to perform geographic data analysis, data conversion, data management, and map automation.
RSGISLib: or The Remote Sensing and GIS Software Library is a set of remote sensing tools for raster processing and analysis.
pgeocode: is used for querying of GPS coordinates and municipality names from postal codes, distances between postal codes as well as general distances.