The GDAL library we introduced earlier in this chapter is extremely powerful, but it wasn't designed for Python. The rasterio library solves that problem by wrapping GDAL in a very simple, clean Pythonic API for raster data operations.
This example uses the satellite image from the GDAL example in this chapter. We'll open the image and get some metadata, like the following
>>> import rasterio
>>> ds = rasterio.open("SatImage.tif")
>>> ds.name
'SatImage.tif'
>>> ds.count
3
>>> ds.width
2592
>>> ds.height
2693
