2025-09-04, 13:30–15:00 (Europe/Amsterdam), Expert Room 3
An introduction lecture to Julia, focused on the installation, usage and other first steps. Useful if you plan on following subsequent lectures/tutorials on Julia and have no previous experience.
This lecture will introduce Julia as a programming language, and will have hands-on exercises to prepare you for the subsequent lectures using Julia. It will cover the installation of Julia, the installation of packages and environments, and using the geospatial stack. In between we will discuss the concepts that make Julia fast, and give you tips and tricks to work with Julia beyond the summer school.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/193MY023MEdO25W4poH95l0ihdjwx40cy/view?usp=drive_link
Maarten Pronk is a researcher at Deltares and an external PhD candidate at the Delft University of Technology. He holds a cum laude MSc in Geomatics and a BSc in Architecture, both from the Delft University of Technology (NL). His research concerns elevation modelling, especially in lowlands prone to coastal flooding. He aims to combine his interests in remote sensing and software engineering for societal impact. He promotes open and reproducible research and is the author of several open-source software packages for handling geospatial data, written in the Julia programming language. His work often involves handling trillions of elevation measurements, requiring a careful selection and design of both spatial storage formats and processing algorithms. Currently, he works on applying data from ICESat-2, a LiDAR satellite, on global elevation models.