What is the efficient way to find the top-most images of a Landsat-8 mosaic with latest data on top?
Hiking & ActivitiesLandsat-8 Mosaics: Getting the Freshest, Clearest View Landsat-8 imagery is gold for those of us working in remote sensing and geospatial analysis. We use it for everything! But creating a seamless mosaic from these images? That’s where things can get tricky. The real challenge is picking out the best images to put on top –
Turning one column to multiple columns in Attribute Table?
Hiking & ActivitiesUntangling Your Data: Turning One Attribute Table Column into Many Ever feel like your GIS attribute table is a bit of a tangled mess? You’re staring at a single column crammed with different pieces of information, and you just know there’s a better way. Well, you’re probably right. Sometimes, splitting that one overloaded column into
Making spatial pie chart using two columns in GeoPandas
Hiking & ActivitiesSpatial Pie Charts with GeoPandas: Making Maps That Tell a Story Ever wanted to show not just where something is, but what it’s made of, all on a single map? That’s where spatial pie charts come in. They’re like regular pie charts, but instead of sitting neatly in a report, they’re plopped right onto a
Calculate text field based on codeblock query of numeric field
Hiking & ActivitiesTurning Numbers into Words: A Human’s Guide to Dynamic Text Fields Ever needed a text field to magically fill itself in based on a number? Yeah, me too. It’s surprisingly common. Think about it: categorizing products by price, flagging risk levels, or even just making a report a little easier to read. The trick is
Selecting only polygons that contain another polygon with Select by Location in QGIS
Hiking & ActivitiesUnlocking Spatial Secrets: How to Find Polygons Hiding Other Polygons in QGIS Ever feel like your GIS data is holding back on you? Like there’s a secret layer of information just waiting to be uncovered? Well, you’re probably right! QGIS, that amazing open-source GIS powerhouse, has a trick up its sleeve called “Select by Location”
How to add metadata such as geokeydirectory, geoasciiparams, modelpixelscale and modeltiepoint to a compressed tiff image?
Hiking & ActivitiesAdding Metadata to Compressed TIFF Images: A Human’s Guide TIFF images – you’ve probably run into them if you’ve ever worked with anything from satellite imagery to scanned documents. They’re the workhorses of the raster graphics world, especially when you need to pack a lot of information into a single file. One of the coolest