knicklabs/lake-malawi

Exploratory data analysis of land and water conditions around Lake Malawi (2017-2024) # Lake Malawi This repository is an exploratory data analysis project. It uses satellite data to study land and water conditions around Lake Malawi from 2017 to 2024. Specifically, it focuses on data from a 25KM buffered zone around the lake boundary to understand environmental changes over time. Landcover and evapotranspiration in particular are important factors in sustainable agriculture, water system conservation, and mitigating impacts of climate change. ## Status This project has been archived as there is no active work being done on this project and there are no contributions being accepted back to this repository. It's here for learning or to fork if you want to carry on with similar work. ## Analysis ### Landcover The landcover notebook defines the lake's boundary and creates a 25km buffer around the boundary. The notebook also processes the raw satellite data from the region. For each year of data, the pixels whose coordinates fall inside the buffered area are extracted. The extracted data is segmented into landcover categories (e.g. different surface types) and examined for changes year-over-year between 2017 and 2024, inclusively. ### Evapotranspiration The evapotranspiration notebook downloads satellite data from the buffered area around the Lake Malawi boundary. The evapotranspiration values are extracted from the raw data and then examined for changes year-over-year between 2017 and 2024, inclusively. ## Future Directions > Author's note: I worked on this project to learn how to work with satellite data and do some exploratory analysis. I had hoped to also do some ML work with this data, but I didn't have the time to get that far. Nonetheless, if the future directions that I laid out based on my work look interesting to you, I would encourage you to run with it (and hopefully share your results). If the source code in this repository may be useful to you, then I would also encourage you to fork this project. Take from it and/or extend it &m …