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    "Datashader is a general-purpose tool for rasterizing (and re-rasterizing) data of many different types. To make it easier to apply this general functionality to the particular domain of geoscience, there are some geospatial-specific utilities that can be used:\n",
    "\n",
    "* [Surface toolset](https://github.com/makepath/xarray-spatial/blob/master/examples/user_guide/1_Surface.ipynb)\n",
    "* [Proximity (Distance) toolset](https://github.com/makepath/xarray-spatial/blob/master/examples/user_guide/2_Proximity.ipynb)\n",
    "* [Zonal Statistics](https://github.com/makepath/xarray-spatial/blob/master/examples/user_guide/3_Zonal.ipynb)\n",
    "* [Classification toolset](https://github.com/makepath/xarray-spatial/blob/master/examples/user_guide/5_Classification.ipynb)\n",
    "* [Remote Sensing](https://github.com/makepath/xarray-spatial/blob/master/examples/user_guide/6_Remote_Sensing.ipynb)\n",
    "* [Pathfinding](https://github.com/makepath/xarray-spatial/blob/master/examples/user_guide/7_Pathfinding.ipynb)\n",
    "\n",
    "These functionality is provided in the [xarray-spatial](github.com/makepath/xarray-spatial) library.\n",
    "You can check out its [example notebooks](https://github.com/makepath/xarray-spatial/tree/master/examples/user_guide) to see how to use the functions.\n",
    "\n",
    "See also [GeoViews](http://geoviews.org), which is designed to work with Datashader to provide a large range of additional geospatial functionality."
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