bringing in environments from Earth Engine imagery

[Kinchie]

Firstly congratulations on developing great ABM features for Python, similar to Netlogo (which I am using currently).

I'm an ecologist working on plant-herbivore systems, and bringing periodically updated spatial data (eg on tree cover, grass biomass, burn state) into an ABM from free remote-sensing platforms (like Google Earth Engine - in .asc or appropriate format) would be invaluable.

Any suggestions on how to do this in an AGENTPY model system?

[jofmi]

Hi @Kinchie, since AgentPy v0.1.0, the Grid class has a method Grid.add_field() that can be used for cell attributes. Find more about it here: https://agentpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference_grid.html#agentpy.Grid.add_field

If you had something different in mind, could you explain your application here in more detail, maybe with a simple example?

[ernst117]

@JoelForamitti I'm also a plant ecologist and would love to see models in agentpy able to read in GIS files. Perhaps connecting agentpy to existing GIS python modules (such as those found here: https://automating-gis-processes.github.io/2016/Lesson1-Intro-Python-GIS.html) would be a good start?

[jofmi]

Hi @ernst117, sorry for the late reply! This can definitely be done, I have it on my list of possible extensions :)