Writing Retreat Tasks

Tasks for #1 writing retreat:

PART I:

• Finish / review Part I
  • Finish table join
  • Exercises + Questions
  • "How to design a good plot?" -> revise: generic introduction + practical example
  • remove pandas .append() and update for regular Python append + pd.concat()
  • add .isin() function somewhere

Part II:

• Swap from rasterio to --> xarray, xarray-spatial, rioaxarray
  • Introduction to raster processing
  • Reading and writing raster data (Data I/O)
  • Reprojecting raster data --> rioxarray
  • Mosaicing --> rioxarray
  • Raster resampling (?) - Focal (moving window stuff), local, zonal?
  • Map algebra – Doing calculations with raster data --> xarray
  • Raster to Polygon - Polygon to raster --> rioxarray
  • Masking / clipping --> rioxarray
  • slope, aspect, hillshade --> To Part III? There are material on Spatial Analytics -course exercises

Data related tasks:

• Kilimanjaro data for raster analysis
• Compile + write descriptions to data section (will be online only)

Technical tasks:

• Configuring automatic PDF building
• Check that figure captions are done in consistent way
• Check that PDF layout works okay