diff --git a/storytelling-nicar-2015.md b/storytelling-nicar-2015.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9ca1f55 --- /dev/null +++ b/storytelling-nicar-2015.md @@ -0,0 +1,261 @@ +# Storytelling from Space: Tools/Resources + +This list of resources is all about acquring and processing aerial imagery. It's generally broken up in three ways: how to go about this in Photoshop/GIMP, using command-line tools, or in GIS software, depending what's most comfortable to you. Often these tools can be used in conjunction with each other. + +## Acquiring Landsat & MODIS + +### Web Interface +* USGS Earth Explorer - Browser and data access (create a login) + + - Landsat archive + - Many other products, like aerial/orthophotography + + * GLOVIS (Java/Firefox required) + + - Similar data different interface + + * NASA WorldView - Browser and data access + + + * NASA GIBS - MODIS tileserver + + + * NASA Near-Real Time satellite data links + + + * Google Earth Engine + + + * Landsat 8 Acquisition Calendar + + +### Scripting +* Landsatutil (Development Seed) + + + +* Fetch from Google Earth Engine + + + * Landsat 8 data on AWS + + + * Landsat data on Google Storage + + +## Processing Landsat + +### Background +* Landsat 7/8 bands and combinations + + + +### Photoshop + +* How To Make a True-Color Landsat 8 Image (Rob Simmon, NASA) + + +* Processing Landsat 8 (Tom Patterson, National Park Service) + + +* Avenza Geographic Imager - Expensive but excellent plugin. Allows you to much of what GDAL does (plus things it can't) and preserve geographic metadata. + + +* Without Geographic Imager, you need GDAL tools if you want to preserve geographic metadata: + + Dump metadata from a file before messing with it in Photoshop + ``` +listgeo -no_norm original.tif > original.geo + ``` + Add the metadata back after saving back out + ``` +geotifcp -g original.geo modified.tif modified_geotiff.tif + ``` + +### GIMP + +* Merging bands into RGB in GIMP + +* Pansharpening in GIMP (translate from Portuguese!) + + + + + +### Scripting + +##### GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library & ImageMagick (command-line photoshop) + +* GDAL: ogr2ogr (for vector) and GDAL (for raster) + + ``` +brew install gdal --enable-unsupported --with-postgres + ``` + *note: "--enable-unsupported" allows you to install third party drivers, necessary for proprietary formats like MrSID and FileGDB. See this * + +* ImageMagick, aka `convert` + + ``` +brew install imagemagick + ``` + +* **GDAL cheatsheet - Derek Watkins (NYTimes)** ← *see "Raster Operations"* + + +* **Processing Satellite Imagery (Mapbox)** ← *extra helpful* + + +* Dan's GDAL scripts + +* Pansharpening Landsat 7 with Dan's scripts + + +* Convert Landsat 8 GeoTIFF images into RGB pan-sharpened JPEGs. + + +* Charlie Lloyd's (Mapbox) Rake Task + + + + +##### Orfeo - More advanced. Do things like atmospheric correction and NDVI. + +* Pansharpening with Orfeo +* + + +### GIS + +##### QGIS - Open Source alternative to ArcGIS + +* Install + + ``` +brew tap homebrew/science +brew install qgis24 --with-grass7 --with-orfeo +# May need: > ~/.bash_profile + ``` + +* QGIS 2.0: Composition Color RGB for Landsat-8 (translate from Portuguese) + + + +## Creating Web Imagery + +* GDAL2Tiles + + +* MapTiler + + +* TileMill + + +* SimpleTiles / SimplerTiles (Ruby) + + + + +## Storytelling Tools + +* JuxtaposeJS - Compare two images + + +* Leaflet (see tileLayer or imageOverlay) + + +* Leaflet.Sync + + +* Google Earth + + +* Google Earth Tutorial for GeoTiff + + + +## Storytelling from Space, In the wild +* Losing Ground (ProPublica / The Lens) + + +* Disappering Mississppi Delta (SkyTruth) + + +* Long Swath + +* Long Swath Gigapan: + + +* NYTimes: A Rogue State Along Two Rivers + +* NYTimes: Assessing the Damage and Destruction in Gaza + + +* NYTimes: ISIS in Maps and Photos + + +* Monitoring Oil Reserves from Space + + +* Animated Gifs of Earth over time (Google Earth Engine) + + +* Hurricaine Sandy before/after + + +* The Continuing Crisis in Northern Iraq + + +* Counting Whales from Space + + +* Using Repeat Satellite Imagery to Track Tank Movements + + +* Gaza: X-ray of a disaster + + +* Google Earth Engine + + +## Misc Geospatial Tools + +* Web interface for CS2CS, quickly convert coordinates + + +* Find the EPSG from WKT from gdalinfo + + +* Geojson.io - Draw geographic things, get info and export + + +* Noah Veltman's geotools - Easily get bounding boxes and such + + +## Bonus + +* USGS land cover classification data + - 1992-2011: + - 70's: + +* Installing Open Source geographic software + + +* Creating the Blue Marble + + +* Rainbow planes + + + +* Global Forest Change from Lndsat and MODIS + + + +* Carlton Complex Wildfire, Washington + + + \ No newline at end of file