Julia for large scale geospatial analysis

Julia Tutorial BiDS2025

Authors
Affiliations

Felix Cremer

Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

Lazaro Alonso

Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

Anshul Singhvi

JuliaHub

Fabian Gans

Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

This is the website of the “Julia for large scale geospatial analysis” tutorial at the BiDS 2025 conference.

In this tutorial we will explore how to analyse raster data which is larger than RAM.

1 Preparation

To participate in the hands-on parts of the tutorial please install Julia on your device. We recommend to use the juliaup installer for julia.

You can install juliaup via the windows store or by executing

winget install julia -s msstore

To install juliaup in Linux or Mac execute the following in a shell

curl -fsSL https://install.julialang.org | sh

2 Schedule

Time Topic
14:00 Introduction to Julia
14:30 Julia Geo Ecosystem
15:00 Raster Data Loading
15:30 Coffee Break
15:50 Raster data analysis
16:10 Hands-On Challenge

This timeline is purely approximate and given for indication purpose only. We will adjust depending on the audience. There will be additional breaks (5 minutes) regularly and time for questions during the workshop.