Mars Rover & Heli Demo

This tutorial uses data published by NASA:

• https://mars.nasa.gov/mmgis-maps/M20/Layers/json/M20_waypoints.json
• https://mars.nasa.gov/mmgis-maps/M20/Layers/json/M20_traverse.json
• https://mars.nasa.gov/mmgis-maps/M20/Layers/json/m20_heli_waypoints.json
• https://mars.nasa.gov/mmgis-maps/M20/Layers/json/m20_heli_flight_path.json

Hat tip to https://fosstodon.org/@65dBnoise/108251277108722231 for providing the pointers

Known issues:

1. MovingPandas will calculate movement speeds based on Earth's WGS84 ellipsoid by default

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import geopandas as gpd
import movingpandas as mpd
import shapely as shp
import hvplot.pandas 
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

from geopandas import GeoDataFrame, read_file
from shapely.geometry import Point, LineString, Polygon
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
from holoviews import opts, dim
from os.path import exists
from urllib.request import urlretrieve

import warnings
warnings.filterwarnings('ignore')

plot_defaults = {'linewidth':5, 'capstyle':'round', 'figsize':(9,3), 'legend':True}
opts.defaults(opts.Overlay(active_tools=['wheel_zoom'], frame_width=500, frame_height=400))
hvplot_defaults = {'tiles':None, 'cmap':'Viridis', 'colorbar':True}

mpd.show_versions()