The PyMC library offers a solid foundation for probabilistic programming and Bayesian inference in Python, but it has some drawbacks. Although the API is robust, it has changed frequently along with the shifting momentum of the entire PyMC project (formerly "PyMC3"). This is most evident in the abandoned "PyMC4" project …
Satellite remote sensing products often represent quality control (QC) information as bit-flags, a sequence of binary digits that individually (single digit) or collectively (multiple digits) convey additional information about a remote sensing measurement. This information may be related to cloud cover, atmospheric conditions in general, the status of the space-borne …
In Earth system models that run on daily or weekly time steps, there are many quantities that are we may wish to calculate only when the sun is in the sky. Vapor pressure deficit (VPD), as one important example, has strong diurnal variation, tending to decrease in the evening as …
I've been using Google Earth Engine recently to scale up my remote sensing analyses, particularly by leveraging the full Landsat archive available on Google's servers. I've followed Earth Engine's development for years, and published results from the platform, but, before now, never had a compelling reason to use it. Now …
The Landsat Ecosystem Disturbance Adaptive Processing System (LEDAPS) is a software system for generating surface reflectance data for Landsat 4, 5, and 7 TM or ETM+ sensors. The installation can be difficult, so I've prepared a guide based on my last successful installation of version 2.2.0.