Google Earth Pro lets you fly anywhere to see satellite imagery, 3D buildings, 3D trees, terrain, Street View, planets and much more. Here our recommended open source alternatives.
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Category: Scientific
Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Maps
In this series we recommend alternatives to Google’s products and services. This time alternatives to Google Maps are under the spotlight.
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Best Free Android Apps: Google Earth – explore your planet
Google Earth is an app that lets you discover the world in depth.
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Linux at Home: Circuit Design with Linux
Take any random circuit from the internet and start your designing. With this software, you’ll be able to practice, practice, practice.
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6 Essential Python Tools for Data Science
Data science is an emerging, multidisciplinary field of scientific methods, processes, algorithm development and technology to extract knowledge or insights in ingenious ways from structured or unstructured data.
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Stars and Stripes: NASA and Linux
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civilian space program. How is NASA embracing Linux and open source?
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TermTrack – Track satellites in your terminal
TermTrack is a terminal-based program that lets you track the orbits of artificial satellites. The program is written in Python.
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AWOW AK41 Mini Desktop PC – Astronomy – Week 9
For this week’s blog, we look at how well the most popular open source astronomy programs run on the AWOW AK41.
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Termgraph – draw basic graphs in the terminal
Termgraph is a command-line tool which draws basic graphs in the terminal. Termgraph is free and open source software and written in Python.
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Introduction to Python for Data Science
This is a short introductory training session on the use of Python in data science using Jupyter, pandas library and plotnine package. We focus on a common task in data science: import a data set, manipulate its structure, and then visualise the data. We shall use Python and a Jupyter Notebook to accomplish this task.
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