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Working with Geospatial Hydrologic Data for Watershed Analyses in R and Python Using Web Services

ICRW8_Geospatial_Workshop

Material for the 'Working with Geospatial Hydrologic Data for Watershed Analyses in R and Python Using Web Services' ICRW8 Workshop

Getting Started

R

For working with R, you can use RStudio and you will need the following libraries installed:

library(remotes)
library(sf)
library(lwgeom)
library(ggplot2)
library(jsonlite)
library(httr)
library(data.table)
library(dplyr)
library(readr)
library(knitr)
library(rnaturalearth)
library(stringr)
library(osmdata)
library(mapview)
library(dataRetrieval)
library(terra)
library(raster)
library(stars)
library(remotes)
library(elevatr)
remotes::install_github("mhweber/awra2020spatial")
library(awra2020spatial)
remotes::install_github("mhweber/Rspatialworkshop")
library(Rspatialworkshop)
remotes::install_github("mikejohnson51/AOI")
#hydroloom
remotes::install_github("DOI-USGS/nhdplusTools@2cb81da"
library(AOI)
library(terrainr)
remotes::install_github("USEPA/StreamCatTools")

Python

For running Python notebooks you can use a combination of Miniforge or Mambaforge and Jupyter Lab or other IDE.

After installingminiforge or mambaforge you can create a Python environment as follows:

git clone https://github.com/mhweber/ICRW8_Geospatial_Workshop && \
cd ICRW8_Geospatial_Workshop && \
conda env create -f environment.yml

or

git clone https://github.com/mhweber/ICRW8_Geospatial_Workshop && \
cd ICRW8_Geospatial_Workshop && \
mamba env create -f environment.yml

Now a new environment called icrw8 is created that can be loaded from your IDE. You can also use the Binder service by clicking on the Binder badge above to launch a Jupyter Lab instance with all the required Python libraries installed.

Resources

Here is a list of some useful geospatial tools and resources:

General

• Awesome Geospatial

R

• Hydroinformatics in R: Extensive Notes and exercises for a course on data analysis techniques in hydrology using the programming language R
• Spatial Data Science by Edzar Pebesma and Roger Bivand
• Geocomputation with R
• r-spatial: Suite of fundamental packages for working with spatial data in R
• Working with Geospatial Hydrologic Data Using Web Services (R)
• Accessing REST API (JSON data) using httr and jsonlite

Python

• Datashader: Accurately render even the largest data
• GeoPandas
• HyRiver: a suite of Python packages that provides a unified API for retrieving geospatial/temporal data from various web services
• Python Foundation for Spatial Analysis
• Python for Geographic Data Analysis
• gdptools A Python package for grid- or polygon-polygon area-weighted interpolation statistics
• Intro to Python GIS
• xarray: An open-source project and Python package that makes working with labeled multi-dimensional arrays simple, efficient, and fun!
• rioxarray: Rasterio xarray extension.
• GeoPandas: An open-source project to make working with geospatial data in python easier.
• OSMnx: A Python package that lets you download and analyze geospatial data from OpenStreetMap.
• Xarray Spatial: Implements common raster analysis functions using numba and provides an easy-to-install, easy-to-extend codebase for raster analysis.