Lesson 4 overview

During this lesson we will learn to work with Raster data, the other commonly used GIS data type:

  1. Working with Raster data

Learning goals

After this lesson’s lesson you should be able to:

  • understand the Raster data model, and the differnce to vector/feature data

  • load and anlyse raster datasets with RasterIO and RasterStats

  • plot, extract and save raster data files

Sources

Following materials are partly based on documentation of RasterIO, RasterStats and the underlying GIS powerhouse library GDAL.

The lesson reuses materials from The Carpentries licensed under CC-BY 4.0 2018–2019 from Introduction to Geospatial Concepts course.