Christine Garrard

Chris Garrard has worked as a developer for the Remote Sensing/Geographic Information Systems Laboratory in the Quinney College of Natural Resources at Utah State University for almost 15 years. She has been teaching a Python-for-GIS course for about half of that time, and has also taught workshops on campus and at conferences. She loves showing people that there are open source alternatives for processing spatial data, but her favorite thing about teaching is that “Aha!” moment when someone realizes just how much the ability to code will help them with their work.

books by Christine Garrard

Geoprocessing with Python
  • May 2016
  • ISBN 9781617292149
  • 360 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Simplified Chinese
catalog / Other / Mathematics / Geospatial Data Analysis

Geoprocessing with Python teaches you how to access available datasets to make maps or perform your own analyses using free tools like the GDAL, NumPy, and matplotlib Python modules. Through lots of hands-on examples, you'll master core practices like handling multiple vector file formats, editing geometries, applying spatial and attribute filters, working with projections, and performing basic analyses on vector data. The book also covers how to manipulate, resample, and analyze raster data, such as aerial photographs and digital elevation models.