Continued learning

For continued learning, please consider the following external resources.

Live collaboration

• Tuple’s pair programming guide

JupyterHub/Lab

• CryoCloud Tutorials
  • Opening non-cloud datasets uploaded to JupyterHub
• YouTube: CryoCloud onboarding training (1:59:00)

Git/GitHub

• Pro Git: the official Git book
• Integration with Zenodo for DOIs
• GitHub-Flavored Markdown Basics
  • Full specification
• Allison Horst’s Git/GitHub illustrations
• YouTube: ICESat-2 2020: Git and GitHub (1:38:00)

Geospatial concepts

• PyGIS: “Open Source Spatial Programming & Remote Sensing”
• Esri: Coordinate systems, map projections, and transformations

Raster data

• NCAR Regridding Overview
• Georegistration / georeferencing

Coordinate systems

• Esri: Coordinate Systems: What’s the Difference?
• Proj4 parameters
• Data Carpentry: Coordinate Reference Systems

Datum

• YouTube: An Introduction to Geodetic Datums
• NOAA National Geodetic Survey: Datums and Reference Frames

Map Projections

• Awesome Projections GitHub repository: list of resources related to map projections.
• Guide on NSIDC polar stereographic projections: NSIDC’s Polar Stereographic North (EPSG:3413) is used as the default projection in QGreenland.
• Map projections: A working manual (USGS, 1987)

Data formats

• Library of Congress Digital Formats
  • ESRI ASCII Grid
  • ESRI World File
  • ESRI GeoDatabase
  • Google KML/KMZ
  • HDF-EOS

Data and Metadata Standards

• Unified Metadata Model
• NetCDF Climate and Forecast (CF) Metadata Conventions
• Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
  • CF conventions use the FGDC standards as a guide.
• Cooperative Ocean/Atmosphere Research Data Service (COARDS) NetCDF Conventions
  • CF “conventions generalize and extend the COARDS conventions”
• ISO 19111:2019, Geographic information — Referencing by coordinates
• Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards
• NASA ESDIS Standards and Practices