Update narrative of the course

[fnattino]

As promised during discussions offline, here is the PR that updates the material to include the changes that we have introduced in our fork of the lesson (for reference, that version of the material is deployed here).

More in the specific, this PR introduces the following changes:

• We have updated the narrative of the course, focusing on the detection of wildfires and changing the area of interest from the Netherlands to Rhodes, Greece. This is to make the lesson more engaging. All episodes now are working towards the ultimate goal of detecting wildfires and estimating damages.
• As vector data, we are now using infrastructure data from Open Street Map and administrative boundaries from GADM. The Dutch governmental data that we had previously introduced was too Netherlands-specific (and headers were in Dutch!).
• We found that starting with the STAC data-access episode was not always ideal. Some of the participants we had in our workshops were interested in using Python to work with raster datasets, but not necessarily with satellite images. Also, we saw that working with APIs was too advanced for some of them. So we decided to make the chapter optional and make it possible to teach it as an overview/demo episode at the end of the workshop. We have thus included the raster datasets to the lesson figshare repository and updated the material accordingly, so that the default now is to work with raster data downloaded locally (and not streamed from AWS).
• We have added the first version of a final episode on using ODC-STAC to create and work with data cubes (also optional and to be taught with “advanced” participants - thus in principle also addressing #82 and #105).

@rbavery very sorry for the huge PR, I have tried to split it in smaller chunks by cherry-picking updates on individual episodes. However, various commits seems to have covered multiple files, so it is really not possible to create episode-specific branches at this stage. Of course feel free to submit reviews in parts, if it helps, and please let me/us know if we can do anything else to simplify the review process..

Also cc'ing @Morrizzzzz and @rogerkuou

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:stopwatch: Updated at 2024-10-02 20:58:38 +0000

[rbavery]

@fnattino All good! I'll go episode by episode and submit reviews for each here. Thanks for the amazing work on this, excited to step through the new episodes.