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Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python - Third Edition
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Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python - Third Edition

by Joel Lawhead
September 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
456 pages
10h 53m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating histograms

A histogram shows the statistical frequency of data distribution within a dataset. In the case of remote sensing, the dataset is an image. The data distribution is the frequency of pixels in the range of 0 to 255, which is the range of 8-byte numbers that are used to store image information on computers.

In an RGB image, color is represented as a 3-digit tuple with (0,0,0, 0, 0) being black and (255,255,255) being white. We can graph the histogram of an image with the frequency of each value along the y-axis and the range of 256 possible pixel values along the x-axis.

Remember in Chapter 1, Learning about Geospatial Analysis with Python, in the Creating the simplest possible Python GIS section, when we used the Turtle ...

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