mwangosiisaya-eng/EO-AFRICA

# Additional course materials for the face 2 face course **Face-to-Face course on Modern Tools for River Monitoring** see also the announcement site ## A: Getting started on the Innovation Lab ### Step A1: Login to the EOAfrica Innovation Lab ### Step A2: clone this repository in your home folder, and link the data directory Either execute from a terminal (File-> New -> Terminal): 1. `cd` without arguments to nativaget to your home and then 2. `git clone github.com` 3. `cd eoafrica-Dar-f2f-may2026` (Change in your cloned directory) 4. `ln -s /home/eoafrica/resources/F2FDar26/wbalance_assignment_data data` (creates a symbolic link to the shared resources folder, avoiding a copy) or use the left panel to navigate to your home directory and click on the 'git' symbol to *Clone a Repository* using the https link from above. You need to also perform step *3.* and *4.* from a terminal. ## B setup a conda environment with the necessary tools In a terminal 1. `cd` (navigate to your home directory, if your not there already) 2. `conda create -n pywater python` (create a new conda environment) 3. `conda activate pywater` conda activate the environment 4. `conda install ipykernel` Install the ipykernel needed for using in Jupyeter notebooks 5. `pip install shxarray` install shxarray 6. `python -m ipykernel install --user --name myenv --display-name "pywater"` (Install the ipython kernel so you can use it in your notebooks) 7. Install additional tools using conda or pip `h5netcdf,folium, cartopy, fftw, ..` (fall back to pip when the package does not have a conda version) ## C Alternative to B: use the prepared Conda environment in the Innovation Lab 1. `conda activate /home/eoafrica/resources/F2FDar26/pywater` (Activate the environment) 2. Run step 6 from *B* to install the conda IPython kernel for your Jupyter notebooks ## D Getting started with the exercises You should now be able to use the tools from the conda environme …