Power tools for Satellite Imagery: Working with an Open Source Imagery Processing Pipeline
Thursday, 28 May 2015, 0900 – 1030 hrs

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

During this workshop, the participants will get to work with the open source toolchain we are using in our own satellite work. We’ll spend most of the workshop getting familiar with Landsat-util, the open source command line utility we developed for processing Landsat-8 imagery (https://github.com/developmentseed/landsat-util). Landsat-util does three things well: 1) it searches loads of Landsat metadata, 2) it makes downloading easier, 3) it processes the data, with natural and false color-correction and pansharpening, and gets it ready for use other tools. It allows you to collect, georeference, composite, color correct, and pan-sharpen imagery, in a matter of minutes. Landsat-util helps us in our own satellite imagery work and we believe could help others run smarter, faster and better analysis and research using satellite products.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Anybody that is interested in open source tools for working with satellite imagery.

WORKSHOP REQUIREMENTS

Instructions for participants:
Take your laptop with the Landsat Util installed. For detailed installation instructions, please see: https://github.com/developmentseed/landsat-util

During the workshop we aim to work with a couple of real-world use cases. If you think you have an interesting use case, please get in touch.

DETAILED WORKSHOP AGENDA

• Introduction to Landsat-util and open source satellite imagery tools
• Brief discussion of the use cases, with input from participants
• Hands-on demo and detailed walkthrough of workflow
• Facilitated discussion on how open source imagery tools could be further developed