Raster operations using GDAL

The GDAL library allows you to read and write both vector and raster data. To install GDAL on Windows, you will need the appropriate binaries:

Note

You can download OSGeo4W, which contains the binaries, at: https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/

When you have the binaries, you can install gdal using conda, as follows:

conda install -c conda-forge gdal

In the following sections, you will learn how to load and work with a .tif file.

Using the GDAL library to load and query rasters

Now that you have gdal installed, import it using:

from osgeo import gdal

GDAL 2 is the most recent version. If you have an older version of gdal installed, you may need to import it using the following code:

import gdal

If this is the case, you may want to look into upgrading your version of gdal. Once you have gdal imported, you can open a raster image. First, let's get an image from the web. The Earth Data Analysis Center at the University of New Mexico maintains the Resource Geographic Information...