Pablo Carreira - Geospatial Development By Example with Python

Pablo Carreira is a Python programmer and a full stack developer living in So Paulo state, Brazil. He is now the lead developer of an advanced web platform for precision agriculture and actively uses Python as a backend solution for efficient geoprocessing.

Born in 1980, Brazil, Pablo graduated as an agronomical engineer. Being a programming enthusiast and self-taught since childhood, he learned programming as a hobby and later honored his techniques in order to solve work tasks.

Having 8 years of professional experience in geoprocessing, he uses Python along with geographic information systems in order to automate processes and solve problems related to precision agriculture, environmental analysis, and land division.

I would like to thank my mother and father for the support given through all my life. I also would like to thank my wife for her help and patience in face of my absence during all the writing sessions.

I thank my university teacher Jos Paulo Molin, who first introduced me to geoprocessing and precision agriculture and created in me a deep interest in the area and gave the means for my development. Finally, I thank my good friend Gerardo F. E. Perez for all the opportunities that he presented me with and for the uncountable hours of good technical discussions.

Brylie Christopher Oxley enjoys working on technology projects that improve the human and environmental commons. He is dedicated to working for open source, open web, and open knowledge movements.

He regularly contributes to open source projects primarily built with web platform technologies, including a wellbeing visualization application for aging populations and a community portal for refugee support.

Thank you Elvin, Lauri, Antti, Marjo, and Lynne for being the shining stars of my life.

Vivek Kumar Singh is a research scholar at the center of atmospheric science, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT Delhi). He has completed his master's in technology in Remote Sensing and GIS from the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, ISRO, in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. He focused on the different applications of Remote Sensing and GIS using geocomputational modeling with satellite observations during his time in graduate school. His main research expertise is in the application of satellite remote sensing for air quality monitoring and assessment, urban heat island and remote sensing, and geographical systems around the world. He is also interested in researching the air quality in growing megacities, spatial and temporal trends in aerosols over urban regions, the radiative effects of aerosols, the development of statistical models to estimate surface level particulate matter air quality, aerosols and clouds data validation, and the retrieval of cloud products from UV satellite measurements. He is also an associate with the BhuNak science team on the development and validation of new GIS products for climate studies. He also currently participated in developing and conducting remote sensing technical workshops and capacity building activities for the BhuNak Program, where he teaches the application of satellite imagery to environmental decision-making activities with a focus on urban living quality.

I would like to thank Vaibhav Kumar, PhD Scholar at the Center of Urban Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-Bombay), for his contribution (cofounder of BhuNak Research Group). A special thank you to ML Singh (father), Prashant Kumar Singh (brother), and Kimeera Tummala (friend) for their contribution in my life.

Claudio Sparpaglione is a CTO at WalletSaver, an Italian startup rocking in the mobile phone tariff comparison landscape. His work experience includes the design and building of geospatial applications and web-oriented systems in the online advertisement industry. A passionate Pythonista and open-source advocate, he's a maintainer of the PyOWM project and actively involved in the community with contributions to projects such as Python-Requests and Reactive Manifesto. His main interests include high-scalable web architectures, APIs design, and cloud computing.

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