Research Playbook
This page is a living collection of resources for students and early career researchers to find tools that support each step of their research process, with a focus on remote sensing of vegetation, while still following the logic of the scientific method.These are tools that work for me and have been inspired by Gustavo Paterno´s Ecological Toolbox. I am always curious about new solutions. Please create a pull request if you would like to add something.
1. Getting Into New Topics
Finding and managing literature
- Collecting Papers: Research Rabbit
- Manage Papers: Zotero and Mendeley
- Types of literature: University of Saskatchewan
2. Fieldwork
Planning Fieldwork (Remote Sensing and Reference Data)
- Sampling Design: FielDHub
- Planning UAS Missions: UAS Pre-Flight Checklist
- Planning Spectral Field Campaigns: Anna Schweiger
- Am I allowed to fly? dipul MapTool
- UAS Weather Check: Various Apps
Collecting Data
- Collecting Geospatial Data: QField
- Handbook Standardised Measurement Plant Functional Traits: N. Pérez-Harguindeguy
- Satellite Data: Copernicus Browser
- Open Geo Data (e.g., NSW Spatial Data Catalogue or Niedersachsen)
- Quick Polygons: geojson.io
- Spectral Vegetation Indices: Awesome Spectral Indices
3. After Fieldwork
Learning Scientific Programming
- R: fasteR: Fast Lane to Learning R!
- Python: TBA
- Julia: TBA
Data Management & Cleaning
- Directory Structures: Code Refinery
- Open Data Repositories: List by Swiss National Science Foundation
- Reproducible Research: The Turing Way
- The Big Book of R: Getting, Cleaning and Wrangling Data
Analysis & Modeling
- Learning Statistics: Statistical Rethinking
- Learning Statistics in R (copy in my office) -> Discovering Statistics Using R
- Learning Machine Learning: An Introduction to Statistical Learning
- Image Processing: scikit-image
- Geospatial Analysis: Geocomputation in R and Spatial Data Science
- Photogrammetry: Open Drone Map
- Python Notebooks: TBA
- R Notebooks: Quarto Tricks
- Exploratory Data Analysis: A protocol for data exploration to avoid common statistical problems
Data Visualization
- Best Practices: Data-to-Viz
- Matching Colors: Palleton
- Color Palettes - Plots: Coolers
- Color Palettes - Maps: Color Brewer
- Figure Design: Inkscape
- Workflow: Draw.io
4.Writing & Communicating
Thesis Writing
- Bachelor and Master Thesis: Rene Heim
Paper Writing
- Full Guide Talk: Cyrill Stachniss
- Full Guide Text: Jason Thatcher
Research Communication
- Talks - Best Practices:
- Posters - Best Practices:
- Geospatial Conferences -> Jakub Nowosad
- Open Science Journals
- Open Research Compendium: The Turing Way
5. Research Ethics
- Academic Publishing -> MAITHINK X
- Avoiding Predatory Journals -> Beall´s List
6. Research Funding
Funding for Students
- UGOE: Mobility
Funding for Early Career Researchers
7. Additional Topics
- Lab On-Boarding: Valve Handbook For New Employees
- Finding Jobs: TBA