TechnicalGIS

#Rasterize

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Three panels of the same 1 km by 0.7 km area at Salford Quays. Left: square WorldCover pixels, mostly red built-up land with blue dock basins and small green and yellow patches. Middle: the same area as 142 polygons with black outlines that follow the pixel staircase. Right: the polygons after coverage simplification at 10 m, with smoother outlines and no gaps between them.

Tutorial Python Part 3 of 3

Raster to vector in Python: polygonize with rasterio, rasterize boundaries and convert a GeoTIFF to a Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF

Convert raster to vector in Python with rasterio.features.shapes on 10 m ESA WorldCover for Greater Manchester: polygonize water and built-up land, fix invalid polygons, simplify without gaps, rasterize ONS district boundaries for land-cover shares, then write and validate a Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF with rio-cogeo and measure HTTP range reads.

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