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).

Raster & Remotely Sensed Data Made Easy

GeoWombat provides utilities to process geospatial and time series of raster data at scale. Easily process Landsat, Sentinel, Planetscope or RGB data and others.

Common Remote Sensing Uses

• Simple read/write for a variety of sensors (Landsat, Sentinel etc)

• 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

Mosaic Images Example

Get started with geowombat

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='image_a.tif', sensor='l7'):
    # 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
        vis_mean = srcb.sel(band=['blue', 'green', 'red']).mean(dim='band')
        results = srca.sel(band='blue') * vis_mean
        # Initiate computation by writing the results to file
        results.gw.save(
            'output.tif',
            num_workers=4,
            compress='lzw'
        )

For more details, see the tutorials and examples.

The package is inspired by, and built on, several key libraries for large-scale data processing, such as Dask, Geopandas, Pandas, Rasterio, and Xarray. GeoWombat interfaces directly with Xarray for raster I/O, which uses Rasterio to open raster files such as satellite images or aerial photos as Dask arrays. GeoWombat uses the Xarray register to extend the functionality of Xarray DataArrays.

One of the key features of GeoWombat is the on-the-fly handling of multiple files. In particular, GeoWombat leverages Rasterio to transform and align rasters with varying projections and spatial resolutions. In addition to simplifying the process of data alignment, GeoWombat utilizes the task graphs of Dask arrays. By default, GeoWombat loads a raster as a DataArray, which points to the raster data on file using a chunked Dask array. This task graph feature simplifies parallel computations of one or more raster files of any size.