Teaching a New Geospatial Python Lesson

Tue, 10 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

On February 6-7, 2020, the NASA DEVELOP program at Jet Propulsion Laboratory(JPL) hosted the initial run of Introduction to Geospatial Raster and Vector Data with Python, a Carpentries incubator lesson. This lesson was imagined as a Python complement to Introduction to Geospatial Raster and Vector Data with R, an existing Data Carpentry lesson.

Kunal Marwaha and Ryan Avery, the lesson authors, served as instructors. We had 8 attendees; the small learner size helped us work through hiccups in the new material. Most attendees were recent graduates in a field related to remote sensing or geographic information systems. We had a range of previous experience level, including folks who use Python daily, weekly, and never.

Two Workshops at NASA DEVELOP (or, Python De-Fanged)

Tue, 11 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

On 8-9 June, 2017, Katie Moore, Deputy Data Management Team Lead for the NASA CERES Science Team, and Ryan Avery, Geoinformatics Fellow with the NASA DEVELOP National Program, ran a Self-Organised workshop in Hampton, VA.

On 12-13 June, 2017, Kunal Marwaha, a software engineer with Palantir, Kelly Meehan, Geoinformatics Fellow with NASA DEVELOP, and Ryan ran another Self-Organised workshop in Norton, VA.

Both workshops focused on building skills in NASA DEVELOP participants, who work on 10-week feasibility projects that demonstrate how to apply NASA Earth observations to environmental concerns to enhance project partner decision-making. In the process, both partners and participants gain a better understanding of NASA’s Earth-observing (EO) capabilities and improve their professional and technical capacity to use EO data. For Katie, Kelly, and I, these were the first workshops in which we taught entire lessons and we found it to be an extremely rewarding experience.

Ryan Avery on The Carpentries

Teaching a New Geospatial Python Lesson

Two Workshops at NASA DEVELOP (or, Python De-Fanged)