Learning Resources¶
This page collects external material that can help students, researchers, geospatial scientists, and contributors understand the broader landscape around CoRE Stack.
These are learning aids, not required prerequisites. Use them when you want more background in web systems, remote sensing, hydrology, agriculture, or public-interest technology.
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Web and Backend Foundations¶
CS50's Web Programming with Python and JavaScript¶
Good for contributors who want a structured introduction to HTML, CSS, Git, Python, Django, SQL, JavaScript, testing, and security.
Why it fits CoRE Stack:
- makes Django shell and model concepts less intimidating
- helps explain why routes, serializers, migrations, and auth work the way they do
- useful for students who want a deeper software foundation
Geospatial and Remote Sensing Foundations¶
Spatial Thoughts¶
An open learning platform for modern geospatial technologies with strong coverage of QGIS, Python, Google Earth Engine, and GDAL.
QGIS Training Manual¶
The official QGIS step-by-step manual. Useful if you want to inspect layers, styles, attributes, and raster outputs beyond API responses.
NASA Earthdata: Remote Sensing Basics¶
A good primer on how remotely sensed imagery is interpreted, including color, context, and feature identification.
NASA ARSET¶
NASA's Applied Remote Sensing Training Program offers free beginner-to-advanced training across agriculture, disasters, ecological conservation, and water resources.
Calculating Spectral Indices for Land and Aquatic Applications Using QGIS¶
Useful when you want a concrete tutorial around indices such as NDVI and related land or water workflows.
Earth Engine and Dataset Discovery¶
awesome-gee-community-catalog¶
A community-maintained catalog for Earth Engine-ready datasets that complements the main Earth Engine catalog.
Why it fits CoRE Stack:
- helps researchers discover datasets they can query or adapt
- gives newcomers examples of how public geospatial data is packaged and documented
- can inspire future CoRE Stack layer references and examples
Hydrology and Water Learning¶
USGS Water Science School¶
Useful for foundational concepts around the water cycle, groundwater, surface water, and water quality.
Hydrology Pipeline Docs¶
Read this alongside the USGS material when you want to connect general hydrology concepts with CoRE Stack-specific workflows.
Agriculture and Land Systems¶
ARSET agriculture trainings¶
The current ARSET catalog includes agriculture-oriented material on crop mapping, evapotranspiration, soil moisture, and large-scale remote sensing workflows.
Use Remote Sensing Data to Study Vegetation Dynamics¶
Helpful for students or analysts trying to understand vegetation monitoring and why indices like NDVI matter.
FAO elearning Academy¶
A broad training portal for agriculture, food systems, and related domains.
FAO: Remotely Sensed Information for Crop Monitoring and Food Security¶
Useful when you want agriculture-oriented framing for how remote sensing supports crop monitoring and food security.
Technology, Society, and Public Interest¶
Technology and (Dis)Empowerment: A Call to Technologists¶
This is important context for why CoRE Stack exists as public-interest infrastructure rather than as a purely technical stack.
Read it when you want to think about:
- who technology empowers
- what participatory and democratic design should mean
- why documentation, transparency, and community stewardship matter