Setting up your environment¶

There are a few steps recommended for beginning working with geospatial packages:

Since there are many dependencies, begin by creating a virtual environment for your Python geospatial work.
Install the required dependencies:
- numpy
- matplotlib
- pandas
- geopandas
- rasterio
- Google Earth Engine (earthengine-api). Be sure that you can successfully run ee.Initialize before proceeding
Activate your Python environment before beginning your analyses

I personally recommend the use of an integrated development environment (IDE) and VS Code is my recommended IDE.

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