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Nearest neighbor search on Earth's surface with a GPU

Project description

Vincenty nearest neighbor search using CUDA

Nearest neighbor search algorithm on Earth's surface that runs on a GPU and uses Vincenty's formula

Application

Nearest Neighbour Search is the key component of location data analysis:

  • Nearest Neighbour Index is based on measuring distances between points
  • Both global pattern analysis algorithms (Global Moran’s I, Getis-Ord General G), as well as local pattern analysis algorithms (Anselin Local Moran's I, Getis Ord GI *) with the k-nn approach to define neighbours are based on measuring distances between points

Using Vincenty’s formula allows performing location analysis on any location using geographic coordinates.

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Requirements

  • CUDA-enabled GPU with compute capability 2.0 or above with an up-to-data Nvidia driver.
  • CUDA toolkit

Installation

pip install vincenty-cuda-nns

Usage example

import geopandas as gpd  # here just for example
import numpy as np
from vincenty_cuda_nns import CudaTree

df = gpd.read_file('points.geojson')

# data is array of points like [longitude, latitude]
points = np.stack(df['geometry']).astype(np.float32)

# build tree for the data
cuda_tree = CudaTree(points, leaf_size=4)

# query over the tree for tree nearest neighbors (+1 for itself)
distances, indices = cuda_tree.query(points, n_neighbors=4)

# you can also find distances from andother dataset
from_points = (np.random.random((100, 2)) * 180) - 90

distances, indices = cuda_tree.query(from_points)

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