Setup Tutorial Python Environment

Overview

Teaching: 5 min
Exercises: 0 min

Questions

• How do I setup a Python environment to run examples in this tutorial?

Objectives

• Create a conda environment with an environment definition file.

Prerequisites:

This tutorial will use multiple Python packages to work with raster data. To set up a local conda environment, download this conda environment definition and create an environment like so:

$ conda env create -f environment.yml
$ source activate rasterenv

Key Points

• It’s best practice to create a unique conda environment for each of your projects. Here we install a raster environment called ‘rasterenv’.