Preprocessing with GDAL: A gentle introduction to the command line (Adam Stewart)

Earth Observation Summer School 2026 17 Aug 2026 – 21 Aug 2026, Istanbul, Turkey https://opengeohub.org/events/earth-observation-summer-school-2026 This lecture will introduce GDAL and show how to manipulate raster and vector data directly from the command line. We will cover topics including data exploration, reprojection, resampling, and rasterization. So you downloaded some satellite imagery. Think you can start machine learning now? Think again. 90% of the work in AI4EO is data preprocessing. Whether you use GIS software or Python/R libraries, all of these tools rely on GDAL under the hood. This tutorial will introduce the GDAL command line, where you can perform a large number of preprocessing operations before you even start coding.