wzone 0.2.4

Package for making zones of armed conflicts.

Wzone is a package for generating zones of armed conflicts. The package contains functionalities for querying and creating conflict zones in the ESRI ASCII raster format. The methodological details can be found here (TBD). The package greatly relies on the UCDPGED (version 17.1) compiled by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program.

Installing

Install and update using pip:

pip install wzone

An Example

import wzone
import tempfile

# list of UCDPGED conflict IDs relevant to state-based violence in Somalia
somalia_ids = wzone.find_ids(country='Somalia', type_of_violence=1)   ### [329, 337, 418, 13646]

# Yearly sequence of dates from the first to the last events for each conflict
somalia_dates = wzone.find_dates(ids=somalia_ids, interval='year')   ### somalia_dates[1][0] == '1989-01-01'

# select a test case
test_id = 337
test_date = '2010-01-01'

# create war zones
tmp_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
somalia_path = wzone.gen_wzones(dates=test_date, ids=test_id, out_dir=tmp_dir)
print somalia_path

# You can continue this example with a variety of functions in other GIS packages.
### For arcpy users, refer to arcpy.ASCIIToRaster_conversion function.
### For gdal users, refer to gdal.Open function.

Links

• Website: https://github.com/kyosuke-kkt/wzone/

• License: GPL-3

• Releases: https://pypi.org/project/wzone/