Python Tools for Spatial Analytics Under Windows

Numerical

Spatial Analytics

• Pymorph is s collection of Morphological Image Processing tools written in Python and the Numeric package. It provides tools to reproduce most examples of the book: Dougherty and Lotufo, Hands-on Morphological Image Processing, SPIE, 2003, ISSN=0-8194-4720-X
• PySAL: an open source cross-platform library of spatial analysis functions
• PSL: The Python Shapefile Library (PSL) provides read and write support for the ESRI Shapefile format.
• NetworkX is a Python package for the creation, manipulation, and study of the structure, dynamics, and functions of complex networks(works with easy_install)
• Shapely is a Python package for programming (e.g. buffers, intersections, cancroids, convex hull, etc) with 2D geospatial geometries. It is based on GEOS..
• GDALa presents a single abstract data model to for a wide variety of raster formats The current version of GDAL also comes with the related OGR API provides a similar capability for access to a variety of vector file formats including ESRI Shapefiles, S-57, SDTS, PostGIS, Oracle Spatial, and Mapinfo mid/mif and TAB formats.
• Basemap: Module for plotting data on maps with matplotlib
• Graphviz: Graph Visualization Software
• Vectorformats: The vectorformats library is designed to make it easy to serialize content from any source to any source within Python. Think of it as a “poor man’s OGR” – a pure Python implementation of transforming features to and from various formats (largely XML based).
• pyproj: Pyrex generated python interface to the PROJ.4 library that performs cartographic transformations and geodetic computations.
• Documentation: Cartographic Projections Library
• Documentation: The main users manual for PROJ
• Documentation: page on the GeoTIFF site that includes information on how to describe many common projections used with PROJ.4 command arguments
• Documentation: PROJ.4 - General Parameters
• Geopy: A Geocoding Toolbox for Python
• Rtree: Spatial indexing to speed up the search for objects that intersect with a spatial bounding box.
• Simplejson: simple, fast, extensible JSON encoder/decoder
• pygoogleearth: APython wrapper for Google Earth COM API
• Documentation:
• The GeoJSON Format Specification
• Open source GIS tools for Python programmers
• OWSLib; Package for working with OGC map, feature, and coverage services
• zgeo,kml: Containers of objects that provide zgeo.geographer's IGeoreferenced can be serialized to KML and browsed in Google Earth
• WorldMill: alternative OGR API
• Quadtree: quad-tree index for spatial data
• Zope: open source web application server
• Documentation: 101 level discussion of map errors

Graphics and GUI development

• wxPython is a GUI toolkit for the Python programming language. It allows Python programmers to create programs with a robust, highly functional graphical user interface, simply and easily.
• PyQt is an other GUI toolkit for Trolltech's Qt application framework and runs on all platforms supported by Qt
• Pygame is a set of Python modules designed for writing games. Pygame adds functionality on top of the excellent SDL library. This allows you to create fully featured games and multimedia programs in the python language.
• VTK - Visualization Toolkit is an open source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing, and visualization. VTK supports a wide variety of visualization algorithms including scalar, vector, tensor, texture, and volumetric methods; and advanced modeling techniques such as implicit modeling, polygon reduction, mesh smoothing, cutting, contouring, and Delaunay triangulation. VTK consists of a C++ class library, and several interpreted interface layers including Tcl/Tk, Java, and Python
• Mayavi: MayaVi1 is a free, easy to use scientific data visualizer built under VTK
• Vislt: A free interactive parallel visualization and graphical analysis tool for viewing scientific data
• Matplotlib is a pure python plotting library with the goal of making publication quality plots using a syntax familiar to matlab users. The library uses numpy for handling large data sets and supports a variety of output backends
• pyglet provides an object-oriented programming interface for developing games and other visually-rich applications..Pyglet provides an interface to OpenGL and GLU. The interface is used by all of pyglet's higher-level API's, so that all rendering is done efficiently by the graphics card, rather than the operating system. You can access this interface directly; using it is much like using OpenGL from C.
• PIL - Python Imaging Library provides basic image handling and processing for various image types including jpg, gif, tiff, and bmp. Reads and writes graphics files. Allows pixel-by-pixel data access and has functions for cropping and transposing an image. Also has various filters built-in
• Chaco Python plotting application toolkit that facilitates writing plotting applications at all levels of complexity, from simple scripts with hard-coded data to large plotting programs with complex data interrelationships and a multitude of interactive tools.
• OpenCV: Python Reference for real time computer vision library
• PyCV Python interface to the computer vision OpenCV package
• Python OpenCV wrapper using ctypes
• PyOpenGL: PyOpenGL is the cross platform Python binding to OpenGL and related APIs
• VPython: "3D Programming of Ordinary Mortals"
• PyGTK: "is a wrapper for the GTK+ library"

Statistics

• RPy is a very simple, yet robust, Python interface to the R Programming Language. It can manage all kinds of R objects and can execute arbitrary R functions (including the graphic functions).
• Documemtation: GDAL Bindings into R
• PyMC, Bayesian statistics and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), support for Python
• python-statlib combines several python statistics modules into a single package
• Pycluster clustering software
• python-cluster is a package that allows grouping a list of arbitrary objects into related groups (clusters). Simply give it a list of data and a function to determine the similarity between two items and you're done
• HPGL - High Performance Geostatistics Library
• PyChem: graphical environment for multivariate analysis incorporating a number of categorical and quanitative multivariate modelling routines
• PyMVPA (MultiVariate Pattern Analysis (MVPA) in Python) is a Python package intended to ease statistical learning analyses of large datasets. It offers an extensible framework with a high-level interface to a broad range of algorithms for classification, regression, feature selection, data import and export.

Data Base

• Python Database API Specification v2.0: This API has been defined to encourage similarity between the Python modules that are used to access databases.
• buzhug Very cool pure-Python database engine, using a non-SQL syntax that Python programmers should find very intuitive
• SnakeSQL is a pure Python SQL database written to remove the dependence of the Python Web Modules on 3rd party drivers for non-Python databases like MySQL but designed to be a useful database in its own right
• PostGIS is an extension to the PostgreSQL object-relational database system that allows GIS (Geographic Information System) objects to be stored in the database. PostGIS does for PostgreSQL what Oracle Spatial does for Oracle and ArcSDE does for Microsoft SQL Server/Oracle
• PostGIS Windows Support
• PostgreSQL Install: Windows installer for PostgreSQL includes the PostgreSQL server, pgAdmin III; a graphical tool for managing and developing your databases, and StackBuilder; a package manager that can be used to download and install additional PostgreSQL applications and drivers
• Pymssql: This module provides access to Microsoft SQL Servers from Python scripts
• MySQLdb: Writing MySQL Scripts with Python DB-API (i.e. designed to be portable across databases)
• MySQL-Python: MySQL (i.e. not so portable across all databases) support for Python
• HDF5 is a data model, library, and file format for storing and managing data
• PyHDF: a Python interface to the NCSA HDF4 library
• MySQL: popular open source database
• Pyodbc: Python module that allows you to use ODBC to connect to almost any database from Windows, Linux, OS/X, and more
• SQLAlchemy: Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper that gives application developers the full power and flexibility of SQL.
• GeoAlchemy: Using SQLAlchemy with Spatial Databases
• netCDF: This module can read and write files in the netCDF 4 format, and can create files that are readable by HDF5 clients.

Artificial Intelligence

• Decision Analysis is an easily-extensible expert system to help users make decisions of all types.
• ffnet is a fast and easy-to-use feed-forward neural network training solution for python
• Pyke: a knowledge-based inference engine (expert system) written in 100% python
• PyCLIPS an extension module that embeds full CLIPS functionality in Python applications. This means that you can provide Python with a strong, reliable, widely used and well documented inference engine
• NLTK — the Natural Language Toolkit — is a suite of open source Python modules, data and documentation for research and development in natural language processing.
• PywordNet: A Python interface to the Wordnet (2.0 version ONLY)database of word meanings and lexical relationships.
• PyBrain: modular Machine Learning Library for Python
• PyMVPA: multivariate pattern analysis

System Development

• comtypes - pure Python COM package, based on the ctypes FFI library.comtypes allows to define, call, and implement custom COM interfaces in pure Python.
• processing is a package for the Python language which supports the spawning of processes using the API of the standard library's threading module.
• Pyro is short for PYthon Remote Objects. It is an advanced and powerful Distributed Object Technology system written entirely in Python,
• Download Python for Other Platforms
• argparse: Python command line parser
• SCons: Software construction tool (a python based alternative to "make")
• SCons user guide
• Wikipedia Overview
• CUDA: An architecture that enables developers to leverage the massively parallel processing power of NVIDIA GPUs, delivering the performance of NVIDIA’s graphics processor technology to general purpose GPU Computing.
• Twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python
• OpenCL: A standard for parallel programming on heterogeneous devices including CPUs, GPUs, and others processors
• greenlet: Lightweight in-process concurrent programming
• Cython: language for writing Python C extensions
• PiCloud: eady access to cloud-computing platform ($ for processing on the cloud)

Python Development Tools

Stand alone packages (any platform and language)

• GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a large open-source GIS program
• SAGA System for Automated Geocentric Analyses - is a hybrid GIS software.
• Google Earthprogram for vizualising imagery of the Earth, and allows you to add your own geospatial data.
• Thuban Interactive Geographic Data Viewer
• MapWindows: GIS for Windows
• Quantum GIS (QGIS) user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System. QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats. QGIS lets you browse and create map data on your computer.
• uDig is a JAVA open source desktop application framework
• JUMP Unified Mapping Platform (JUMP) project is a suite of JAVA free, open-source applications that provide an extensible API and graphic user interface (GUI) for viewing and manipulating spatial data-sets.
• IDRISI commerical integrated GIS and Image Processing software solution providing over 250 modules for the analysis and display of digital spatial information
• OpenEV is a (C) software library and application for viewing and analyzing raster and vector geospatial data.
• Fragstats: spatial pattern analysis program for categorical maps.
• OSSIM provides advanced geo-spatial image processing for remote sensing, photogrammetry, and Geographic Information Systems.
• S-GEMS 2.0: Software for 3D geostatistical modeling
• Opticks: is an open source remote sensing application and development framework
• SPy Spectral Python (SPy) is a python module for processing hyperspectral image (HSI) data.
• Weka: collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks. Weka contains tools for data pre-processing, classification, regression, clustering, association rules, and visualization. It is also well-suited for developing new machine learning schemes. (limited access from Python via Jyhon)
• MapServer for Windows: The purpose of this package is to allow all levels of MapServer users to quickly install a working environment for MapServer development on Windows. It is also an environment for packaging and distributing MapServer applications
• Gnuplot: popular graphing utility
• Py-OpenDX : Python Bindings for OpenDX

General Tools

FORTRAN

• Absoft: Fortran commercial package with integrated OpenMP
• FTN95: Fortran ommercial package with strong support for Microsoft .NET
• Viusal Fortran Commerical package from Intel. Provides highly optimized performance libraries for creating multithreaded applications.
• OpenMP: Supports shared-memory parallel programming in Fortran
• Documentation: Parallel Programming in Fortran 95
• G95: Free Open source Fortran 95 compiler (not known for its support of OpenMP)
• GCC: GNU Compiler Collection that includes Fortran 77
• gFortran: Another Open source Fortran 95 compiler that supports OpenMP
• GOMP: Project developing an implementation of OpenMP for Fortran 95 compilers
• Documentation: The GNU Fortran Compiler
• Documentation: g95 versus gfortran
• Documentation: Training Materials for OpenMP
• F2PY: F2PY is a tool that provides an easy connection between Python and Fortran languages. F2PY is part of NumPy.
• Documentation: Parallel Programming with MPI
• Book: Parallel Programming with MPI
• Documentation: The Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard
• Documentation: Extensive list of Fortran resources