Overlays in Practice
Explore how to use overlay operations in GeoPandas to analyze spatial data effectively. This lesson guides you through assessing the Amazon biome's area within adjacent countries using intersection and difference overlays, spatial joins, and appropriate projections to calculate accurate area percentages.
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Overlay operations provide the foundation for spatial decision-making and planning across numerous domains, from urban and environmental planning to business strategy. By leveraging overlay operations, spatial patterns and relationships can be better understood, aiding in sophisticated spatial analysis and insightful decision-making. In this lesson, we are going to use overlays to assess how much the Amazon biome represents in terms of the area of its adjacent countries.
Amazon biome
The Amazon biome is often considered the lungs of the Earth. It's the world’s largest tropical rainforest, covering about ...