bmi-geotiff

Access data (and metadata) from a GeoTIFF file through an API or a BMI.

The bmi-geotiff library accepts a filepath or an URL to a GeoTIFF file. Data are loaded into an xarray DataArray using the rioxarray open_rasterio method. The API is wrapped with a Basic Model Interface (BMI), which provides a standard set of functions for coupling with data or models that also expose a BMI. More information on the BMI can found in its documentation.

Installation

Install the latest stable release of bmi-geotiff with pip:

pip install bmi-geotiff

or with conda:

conda install -c conda-forge bmi-geotiff

Alternately, the bmi-geotiff library can be built and installed from source. The library uses several other open source libraries, so a convenient way of building and installing it is within a conda environment. After cloning or downloading the bmi-geotiff repository, change into the repository directory and set up a conda environment with the included environment file:

conda env create --file environment.yml

Then build and install bmi-geotiff from source with

pip install -e .

Examples

A brief example of using the bmi-geotiff API is given in the following steps. The example is derived from a similar example in the xarray documentation.

Start a Python session and import the GeoTiff class:

>>> from bmi_geotiff import GeoTiff

For convenience, let's use a test image from the rasterio project:

>>> url = "https://github.com/rasterio/rasterio/raw/main/tests/data/RGB.byte.tif"

Make an instance of GeoTiff with this URL:

>>> g = GeoTiff(url)

This step might take a few moments as the data are pulled from GitHub.

The data have been loaded into an xarray DataArray, which can be accessed through the da property:

>>> g.da
<xarray.DataArray (band: 3, y: 718, x: 791)>
[1703814 values with dtype=uint8]
Coordinates:
  * band         (band) int64 1 2 3
  * x            (x) float64 1.021e+05 1.024e+05 ... 3.389e+05 3.392e+05
  * y            (y) float64 2.827e+06 2.826e+06 ... 2.612e+06 2.612e+06
    spatial_ref  int64 0
Attributes:
    STATISTICS_MAXIMUM:  255
    STATISTICS_MEAN:     29.947726688477
    STATISTICS_MINIMUM:  0
    STATISTICS_STDDEV:   52.340921626611
    _FillValue:          0.0
    scale_factor:        1.0
    add_offset:          0.0
    units:               metre

Note that coordinate reference system information is stored in the spatial_ref non-dimensional coordinate:

>>> g.da.spatial_ref
<xarray.DataArray 'spatial_ref' ()>
array(0)
Coordinates:
    spatial_ref  int64 0
Attributes:
    crs_wkt:                           PROJCS["WGS 84 / UTM zone 18N",GEOGCS[...
    semi_major_axis:                   6378137.0
    semi_minor_axis:                   6356752.314245179
    inverse_flattening:                298.257223563
    reference_ellipsoid_name:          WGS 84
    longitude_of_prime_meridian:       0.0
    prime_meridian_name:               Greenwich
    geographic_crs_name:               WGS 84
    horizontal_datum_name:             World Geodetic System 1984
    projected_crs_name:                WGS 84 / UTM zone 18N
    grid_mapping_name:                 transverse_mercator
    latitude_of_projection_origin:     0.0
    longitude_of_central_meridian:     -75.0
    false_easting:                     500000.0
    false_northing:                    0.0
    scale_factor_at_central_meridian:  0.9996
    spatial_ref:                       PROJCS["WGS 84 / UTM zone 18N",GEOGCS[...
    GeoTransform:                      101985.0 300.0379266750948 0.0 2826915...

Display the image with the xarray.plot.imshow method.

>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>>> g.da.plot.imshow()
>>> plt.show()

For examples with more detail, see the Jupyter Notebooks and Python scripts included in the examples directory of the bmi-geotiff repository.

Documentation for bmi-geotiff is available at https://bmi-geotiff.readthedocs.io.