SHEET 04 — ANNOTATIONS
Field Notes
Notes from the field and the terminal — experiences and opinions (NOTE), plus step-by-step learning roadmaps (ROUTE) for people who want to pick these things up.
ROUTEDRAFT
So you want to learn GIS: a QGIS → Python → PyQGIS roadmap
The exact path I'd take today: start clicking in QGIS, automate with Python, then write your own plugins. With free datasets to practice on.
GISLEARNING
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What building a national flood early warning system taught me
Three years at DSİ coordinating observation-based early warning across a whole country — what worked, what surprised me, and why the hard part isn't the hydrology.
FLOODSCAREER
READ →ROUTEDRAFT
Google Earth Engine in 30 days
A month-long plan to go from zero to producing evapotranspiration and land-cover analyses — the datasets, the gotchas, and when not to use GEE at all.
REMOTE SENSINGLEARNING
READ →NOTEDRAFT
Field notes from the 2021 Bozkurt flood
Walking a floodplain weeks after a historic disaster: what damaged structures, sediment and debris lines tell you that no model output can.
FIELDWORKFLOODS
READ →ROUTEDRAFT
From hydrographs to dataframes: Python for water engineers
A practical on-ramp for engineers who live in Excel — pandas for time series, Matplotlib for publication figures, and your first automated report.
PYTHONLEARNING
READ →NOTEDRAFT
Water diplomacy, up close
Ten days with the German Federal Foreign Office on transboundary rivers — how engineers and diplomats talk past each other, and where the data actually helps.
POLICYTRAVEL
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