Chapter 4. Using Raster Data
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Loading a raster layer
- Getting the cell size of a raster layer
- Obtaining the width and height of a raster
- Counting raster bands
- Swapping raster bands
- Querying the value of a raster at a specified point
- Reprojecting a raster
- Creating an elevation hillshade
- Creating vector contours from elevation data
- Sampling a raster dataset using a regular grid
- Adding elevation data to line using a digital elevation model
- Creating a common extent for rasters
- Resampling raster resolution
- Counting the unique values in a raster
- Mosaicing rasters
- Converting a TIFF image to a JPEG image
- Creating pyramids for a raster
- Converting a pixel location to a map coordinate
- Converting a map coordinate to a pixel location
- Creating a KML image overlay for a raster
- Classifying a raster
- Converting a raster to a vector
- Georeferencing a raster from ground control points
- Clipping a raster using a shapefile
