Satellite Image Analysis Reference Guide

Datasets

Satellite imagery is new to me, where can I start learning about it? newcomers earth observation-guide

I’d like information about a particular satellite mission!

• satellite mission database

I’d like to search for and download free satellite imagery for an area of interest!

• NASA Earthdata search
• ESA Copernicus data

I’d like to access high-resolution, high-temporal sampling proprietary imagery!

• Planet academic data access
• DigitalGlobe/Maxar open data

I’d like to work with satellite imagery on commercial cloud computing infrastructure!

• geospatial data on AWS
• Google Earth Engine catalog
• Public data on Google Cloud

I’m a student looking for scholarships for data access

• USGIF Scholarships for grad students, several should be for data access

I would like some metadata:

• Python OpenStreetMap api
• OSMnx:OpenStreetMap Street Networks

Geospatial Spatial Processing

Tutorials

• Earth Data Science
• Python GIS Course
• Geohackweek Raster Tutorial
• Carpentries Python for Athmosphere and Ocean Scientists

Graphical GIS programs

• QGIS

Command line programs

• Gdal

Python Tools

• Rasterio
• Xarray
• Geopandas

Preprocessing Tools:

• Cloud removal?

Simple unsupervised cloud removal from RGB images: Cloud Removal Notebook

Large scale image manipulation, cloud computing

Tools

• Pangeo
• Amazon Sagemaker
• Dask
• Azure Geo & AI instance

Example Notebooks

• Dask example
• Satpy Notebooks

Visualization & Mapping

Python Tools

• Pyviz
• Ipyleaflet
• Cartopy
• Geoserver
• Mapbox

Example Notebooks https://anaconda.org/jbednar/landsat/notebook

Image Processing

• scikit-image

Example Notebooks

• Scikit-Image Notebooks
• Planet Notebooks

Machine Learning

Premiliminary Questions:

• What is the machine learning problem?
• What are the inputs and outputs of the system?
• What is the format of your labels? Points, regions/masks, labels associated with images?
• Do you plan to treat pixels as individual observations, or images as individual observations?

Learning about different computer vision tasks:

• Image Classification, Object Detection, Instance Segmentation

Geohackweek Machine Learning Tutorial

List of Deep Learning Resources for Satellite Imagery

Tensorflow Examples

Object Detection Demo

Models Pretrained on Satellite Imagery:

• DIUx-xView

Challenges:

• Deep Globe Challenges
• CrowdAI Mapping Challenge
• Dstl Challenge
• SpaceNet Challenge

Semantic Segmentation:

• Robosat
• Ship Segmentation Example with U-net
• Ship Detection with Mask R-CNN

Other Data Science Tutorials

eScience Institute Tutorials