Prerequisites

Experience

To make this course as enjoyable as possible for you, and to make sure you can get something out of it, we expect you to know about the following:

• General understanding of geoinformatics, vector and raster data, coordinate systems.

• General understanding of either Python, R or use of command line tools, e.g. GDAL, PDAL, …

• Basic Unix commands (know how to use these commands in a terminal): cd, ls, mv, cp, rm, chmod, less, tail, echo, mkdir, pwd. If you need to refresh these commands, read through the Terminal page.

This also means that this course is not an introduction to any of the topics above. Please refer to the Where to go from here for suggestions for further learning about the course topics.

CSC account

For the exercises, a CSC user account and a CSC project with access to Puhti are required. For the Allas exercise, the Allas service must be enabled for the project.