GeoWombat: Utilities for geospatial data
Like a wombat, GeoWombat has a simple interface (for raster I/O) with a strong backend (for data processing at scale).
Common Remote Sensing Uses
- Simple read/write for a variety of sensors, including:
- Sentinel 2
- Landsat 5-8
- PlanetScope
- Others
- Image mosaicking
- On-the-fly image transformations (reprojection)
- Point / polygon raster sampling, extraction
- Time series analysis
- Band math (NDVI, Tasseled cap, EVI etc)
- Image classification and regression
- Radiometry (BRDF normalization)
- Distributed processing
Basic usage - Sentinel & Landsat
>>> import geowombat as gw
Use a context manager and Xarray plotting to analyze processing chains
>>> # Define satellite sensors (here, Landsat 7)
>>> with gw.config.update(sensor='l7'):
>>>
>>> # Open images as Xarray DataArrays
>>> with gw.open('LT05_L1TP_227083_20110123_20161011_01_T1.tif') as src:
>>>
>>> # Apply calculations using Xarray and Dask
>>> results = src.sel(band=['blue', 'green', 'red']).mean(dim='band')
>>>
>>> # Check results by computing the task and plotting
>>> results.gw.imshow()
Use a context manager to pass sensor information to geowombat methods
>>> # Set the sensor as Sentinel 2
>>> with gw.config.update(sensor='s2'):
>>>
>>> # Open a Sentinel 2 image
>>> with gw.open('L1C_T20HPH_A002352_20151204T141125_MTD.tif') as src:
>>>
>>> # Use built-in normalization methods, such as the NDVI
>>> ndvi = src.gw.ndvi(scale_factor=0.0001)
>>>
>>> # Check results by computing the task and plotting
>>> ndvi.gw.imshow()
Computation scales easily over large datasets with minimal changes to the code.
>>> # Set a reference image to align to
>>> with gw.config.update(ref_image='ref_image.tif'):
>>>
>>> # Open images as Xarray DataArrays
>>> with gw.open('image_a.tif') as srca, gw.open('image_b.tif') as srcb:
>>>
>>> # The size of srca, srcb, and results are determined by the configuration context
>>> results = srca.sel(band=1) * srcb.sel(band=[1, 2, 3]).mean(dim='band')
>>>
>>> # Initiate computation by writing the results to file.
>>> # Compute the task in parallel using dask.
>>> results.gw.save(
>>> 'output.tif',
>>> num_workers=4,
>>> compress='lzw'
>>> )
Documentation
For more details, see https://geowombat.readthedocs.io.
Installation
Conda Install
To allow easy installation and build of all dependencies we recommend installing via conda-forge:
Installing geowombat from the conda-forge channel can be achieved by adding conda-forge to your channels with:
conda config --add channels conda-forge
conda config --set channel_priority strict
Once the conda-forge channel has been enabled, geowombat can be installed with conda:
conda install geowombat
or faster with mamba:
mamba install geowombat
Pip Install
GeoWombat is on PyPI and can be installed with pip:
pip install geowombat
To include optional extras (e.g., ml and stac):
pip install "geowombat[ml,stac]"
Or to install all optional extras:
pip install "geowombat[all]"
We provide detailed instructions in our documentation.
Learning
If you are new to geospatial programming in Python please refer to pygis.io
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