earth-analytics-res

Useful resources to establish an ecossystem for earth analytics and hydrology. Repo to ensure good open science across scholars and practitioners.

Contents

• earth-analytics-res
  • Contents
  • Dependency handling
  • Scientific computing
  • Visualization
  • Performance
  • GIS
  • Meshing
  • Writing
  • Rule makers
  • Others

Dependency handling

• Mamba - A fast cross-platform dependency manager reimplementation of the conda package manager in C++. (GitHub)
• Poetry - Python packaging and dependency manager. (GitHub)
• Pyenv - Python version management. (GitHub)

Scientific computing

• NumPy Fast array handling in Python - (GitHub)
• Pandas Easy data analysis and manipulation tool - (GitHub)
• SciPy Algorithms for scientific computing in Python- (GitHub)
• SciKit-learn A library fool of algorithms for machine learning in Python - (GitHub)
• Xarray High-level, easy-to-use data structures and analysis tools for working with multidimensional labelled datasets and arrays in Python.- (GitHub)

Visualization

• matplotlib Low-level comprehensive library for creating static, animated, and interactive visualizations in Python (GitHub)
• seaborn High-level interface for drawing attractive and informative statistical graphics- (GitHub)
• PyVista - 3D plotting and mesh analysis through a streamlined interface for VTK. (GitHub)

Performance

• dask Parallel operations for Python libraries such as NumPy, pandas, and scikit-learn. (GitHub)

GIS

• GDAL - Translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats. (GitHub)
• Shapely - Manipulation and analysis of geometric objects in the Cartesian plane. (Python, BSD-3-Clause, GitHub)
• Rasterio - High performance, lower cognitive load, cleaner and transparent Python library for GDAL. (Python own licensing, GitHub)
• Geopandas - Extends the datatypes used by pandas to allow spatial operations on geometric types. (Python, BSD-3-Clause, GitHub)
• rasterstats - Summarizing geospatial raster datasets based on vector geometries. (Python, BSD-3-Clause, GitHub)
• xyz2tif - GitHub Gist to convert .xyz to .tif format. (Python, MIT, GitHub)

Meshing

• Triangle - Two-dimensional quality mesh generator and Delaunay triangulator. (C, nonfree software)
• Gmsh - Three-dimensional finite element mesh generator with pre- and post-processing facilities. (C++, GPL, GitLab)
• pygmsh - Python interface for Gmsh. (Python, GPL 3)
• triangle - Python interface for triangle. (Python, LGPL 3, GitHub)
• pandamesh - Translates geospatial vector data (points, lines, or polygons) to unstructured meshes. (Python, MIT, GitHub)

Writing

• Latex - Typesetting system for the production of technical and scientific documentation (TeX, LPPL 1.3, GitHub)
• TeXcount - TeXcount is a Perl script for counting words in LaTeX documents. (Perl, LPPL 1.3, GitHub)
• Pandoc - Swiss-army knife to convert between markup formats. (Haskell, GPL-2.0, GitHub)
• pdfsizeopt - Compressing pdf with marginal quality loss and features' preservation. (Python, GPL-2.0, GitHub)

Rule makers

• Make - Controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program's source files. (GPL 3, GitHub)
• Snakemake - Workflow manager for scalable and reproducible data analysis (Python-HTML MIT, GitHub)

Others

• Contributing
• GUIs
• Learning Python
• Data visualization examples