Satellite data is an emerging source of information for various scientific fields and its analysis is proving critical for policy formulation. The following coding notebook can help one in getting started with raster datasets. If one learns to use libraries like gdal/ogr, it is very easy to combine python with open GIS software like QGIS for achieving more functionality. You can read more about it here.
I will post more blogs on doing such analysis and what I have been able to achieve with such skills soon.