georeader¶
georeader is a package to process raster data from different satellite missions. georeader makes easy to read specific areas of your image, to reproject images from different satellites to a common grid (georeader.read), to go from vector to raster formats (georeader.vectorize and georeader.rasterize) or to do radiance to reflectance conversions (georeader.reflectance).
georeader is mainly used to process satellite data for scientific usage, to create ML-ready datasets and to implement end-to-end operational inference pipelines (e.g. the Kherson Dam Break floodmap). See georeader concepts and protocols for basic concepts and API.
Install¶
The core package dependencies are numpy, rasterio, shapely and geopandas.
pip install georeader-spaceml
Getting started¶
Read from a Sentinel-2 image a fixed size subimage on an specific
lon,latlocation:
from georeader.rasterio_reader import RasterioReader
from georeader import read
# S2 image from WorldFloodsv2 dataset
s2url = "https://huggingface.co/datasets/isp-uv-es/WorldFloodsv2/resolve/main/test/S2/EMSR264_18MIANDRIVAZODETAIL_DEL_v2.tif"
rst = RasterioReader(s2url)
# lazy loading bands
rst_rgb = rst.isel({"band": [3, 2, 1]}) # 1-based list as in rasterio
cords_read = (45.43, -19.53) # long, lat
crs_cords = "EPSG:4326"
# See also read.read_from_bounds, read.read_from_polygon for different ways of croping an image
data = read.read_from_center_coords(rst_rgb,
cords_read, shape=(504, 1040),
crs_center_coords=crs_cords)
data_memory = data.load() # this loads the data to memory
data_memory # GeoTensor object
>> Transform: | 10.00, 0.00, 539910.00|
| 0.00,-10.00, 7842990.00|
| 0.00, 0.00, 1.00|
Shape: (3, 504, 1040)
Resolution: (10.0, 10.0)
Bounds: (539910.0, 7837950.0, 550310.0, 7842990.0)
CRS: EPSG:32738
fill_value_default: 0
from georeader import plot
plot.show((data_memory / 3_500).clip(0, 1))
Saving the GeoTensor as a COG GeoTIFF:
from georeader.save import save_cog
# Supports writing in remote location (e.g. gs://bucket-name/s2_crop.tif)
save_cog(data_memory, "s2_crop.tif", descriptions=["B4","B3", "B2"])
Tutorials¶
Sentinel-2¶
- Reading Sentinel-2 images from the public Google bucket
- Explore metadata of Sentinel-2 object
- Query Sentinel-2 images over a location and time span, mosaic and plot them
- Sentinel-2 images from GEE and CloudSEN12 cloud detection
Read rasters from different satellites¶
- Tiling and stitching predictions of an AI model
- Tutorial to read overlapping tiles from a GeoTIFF and a Sentinel-2 image
- Example of reading a Proba-V image overlapping with Sentinel-2 forcing same resolution
- Work with EMIT images
- Read overlapping images of PRISMA and EMIT
- Read EnMAP images, integrate them to Sentinel-2 bands, convert radiance to TOA reflectance and run CloudSEN12 cloud detection model
Used in other projects¶
- georeader with ml4floods to automatically download and produce flood extent maps: the Kherson Dam Break example
- georeader with STARCOP to simulate Sentinel-2 from AVIRIS images
- georeader with STARCOP to run plume detection in EMIT images
- georeader with CloudSEN12 to run cloud detection in Sentinel-2 images
Citation¶
If you find this code useful please cite:
@article{portales-julia_global_2023,
title = {Global flood extent segmentation in optical satellite images},
volume = {13},
issn = {2045-2322},
doi = {10.1038/s41598-023-47595-7},
number = {1},
urldate = {2023-11-30},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
author = {Portalés-Julià, Enrique and Mateo-García, Gonzalo and Purcell, Cormac and Gómez-Chova, Luis},
month = nov,
year = {2023},
pages = {20316},
}
@article{ruzicka_starcop_2023,
title = {Semantic segmentation of methane plumes with hyperspectral machine learning models},
volume = {13},
issn = {2045-2322},
url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-44918-6},
doi = {10.1038/s41598-023-44918-6},
number = {1},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
author = {Růžička, Vít and Mateo-Garcia, Gonzalo and Gómez-Chova, Luis and Vaughan, Anna, and Guanter, Luis and Markham, Andrew},
month = nov,
year = {2023},
pages = {19999},
}
Licence¶
The georeader package is published under a GNU Lesser GPL v3 licence
georeader tutorials and notebooks are released under a Creative Commons non-commercial licence.
Acknowledgments¶
This research has been supported by the DEEPCLOUD project (PID2019-109026RB-I00) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) and the European Union (NextGenerationEU).

- Documentation https://spaceml-org.github.io/georeader/