Week 14
Raster Datasets in the Wild

Two Case Studies

• Using satellite imagery to detect changes in lake volume
• Detecting urban heat islands in Philadelphia

Interesting Readings and Maps

• Redlining and Urban Heat Islands (NYT)
• Redlining in Philadelphia
• Redlining and Street Trees (NYT)
• Mapping Inequality: Philadelphia

References

• EarthML
• The Disappearing Walker Lake
• The Aral Sea
• Lake Orumiyeh
• Urban Heat Islands
• EarthML Tutorial on Heat Island
• Slicing with xarray
• Slicing in Python
• rio-toa: Top Of Atmosphere (TOA) calculations for Landsat 8
• rioxarray
• Landsat data on Google Cloud Storage
• Google Earth Engine (GEE):
  • Documentation
  • Data Catalog
  • Landsat data on Google Earth Engine
  • GEE Guides
  • Examples of Python packages for GEE
• geemap package:
  • Documentation
  • GEE tutorials
  • Example notebooks with videos