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I keep getting blank images while trying to Georeference an image with GDAL

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import numpy as np
from osgeo import gdal
from osgeo import osr
# Load an array with shape (197, 250, 3)
# Data with dim of 3 contain (value, longitude, latitude)
data = np.load("data.npy")
# Copy the data and coordinates
array = data[:,:,0]
lon = data[:,:,1]
lat = data[:,:,2]
nLons = array.shape[1]
nLats = array.shape[0]
# Calculate the geotransform parameters
maxLon, minLon, maxLat, minLat = [lon.max(), lon.min(), lat.max(), lat.min()]
resLon = (maxLon - minLon) / nLons
resLat = (maxLat - minLat) / nLats
# Get the transform
geotransform = (minLon, resLon, 0, maxLat, 0, -resLat)
# Create the ouptut raster
output_raster = gdal.GetDriverByName('GTiff').Create('myRaster.tif', nLons, nLats, 1,
gdal.GDT_Int32)
# Set the geotransform
output_raster.SetGeoTransform(geotransform)
srs = osr.SpatialReference()
# Set to world projection 4326
srs.ImportFromEPSG(4326)
output_raster.SetProjection(srs.ExportToWkt())
output_raster.GetRasterBand(1).WriteArray(array)
output_raster.FlushCache()
The code above is meant to georeference a raster using GDAL but returns blank tiff files. I have vetted the data and variables, I, however, suspect the problem could be from geotransform variables. The documentation demands the variable to be:
top-left-x, w-e-pixel-resolution, 0,
top-left-y, 0, n-s-pixel-resolution (negative value)
I have used lats and lons not sure I'm getting which one corresponds to x and which to y. It could be something else but I'm not quite sure.

Overall your approach looks correct to me, but it's hard to tell without seeing the data you're using, but here are some points to consider:
First, there's a difference between the output file being empty, and/or being in the wrong location, georeferencing relates only to the latter.
When working interactive, you should also make sure to properly close the Dataset using output_raster = None, that will also trigger flushing for you.
You could start by testing if GDAL reads the same data that you intended to write. Using something like:
ds = gdal.Open('myRaster.tif')
data_from_disk = ds.ReadAsArray()
ds = None
np.testing.assert_array_equal(data_from_disk, array)
If those are not identical, it could be an issue with the datatype. Like writing floats close to 0 as integers, causing them to clip to 0 giving the appearance of an "empty" file.
Regarding the georeferencing, the projection you use has the coordinates in degrees. If yours are in radians your output ends up close to null-island.
Your approach also assumes that the data and lat/lon arrays are on a regular grid (having a constant resolution). That might not be the case (especially if the data comes with a 2D grid of coordinates).
Often when coordinate arrays are given, they are defined as valid for the center of the pixel. Compared to GDAL's geotransform which is defined for the (outer) edge of the pixel. So you might need to account for that by subtracting half the resolution. And this also impacts your calculation of the resolution, which in the case for the center-definition should probably use / (nLons-1) & / (nLats-1). Or alternatively verify with:
# for a regular grid
resLon = lon[0,1] - lon[0,0]
resLat = lat[1,0] - lat[0,0]
When I run your snippet with some dummy data, it gives me a correct output (ignoring the center/edge issue mentioned above).
lat, lon = np.mgrid[89:-90:-2, -179:180:2]
array = np.sqrt(lon**2 + lat**2).astype(np.int32)

How to cut vertices and faces connected to points lower than some value in pyvista?

So when one exports r.out.vtk from Grass GIS we get a bad surface with -99999 points instead of nulls:
I want to remove them, yet a simple clip is not enough:
pd = pv.read('./pid1.vtk')
pd = pd.clip((0,1,1), invert=False).extract_surface()
p.add_mesh(pd ) #add atoms to scene
p.show()
resulting in:
So I wonder how to keep from it only top (> -999) points and connected vertices - in order to get only the top plane (it is curved\not flat actually) using pyvista?
link to example .vtk

There is an easy way to do this and there isn't...
You could use pyvista's threshold filter with all_scalars=True as long as you have only one set of scalars:
import pyvista as pv
pd = pv.read('./pid1.vtk')
pd = pd.threshold(-999, all_scalars=True)
plotter = pv.Plotter()
plotter.add_mesh(pd) #add atoms to scene
plotter.show()
Since all_scalars starts filtering based on every scalar array, this will only do what you'd expect if there are no other scalars. Furthermore, unfortunately there seems to be a bug in pyvista (expected to be fixed in version 0.32.0) which makes the use of this keyword impossible.
What you can do in the meantime (if you don't want to use pyvista's main branch before the fix is released) is to threshold the data yourself using numpy:
import pyvista as pv
pd = pv.read('./pid1.vtk')
scalars = pd.active_scalars
keep_inds = (scalars > -999).nonzero()[0]
pd = pd.extract_points(keep_inds, adjacent_cells=False)
plotter = pv.Plotter()
plotter.add_mesh(pd) #add atoms to scene
plotter.show()
The main point of both all_scalars (in threshold) and adjacent_cells (in extract_points) is to only keep cells where every point satisfies the condition.
With both of the above I get the following figure using your data:

Creating an ASCII art world map

I'd like to render an ASCII art world map given this GeoJSON file.
My basic approach is to load the GeoJSON into Shapely, transform the points using pyproj to Mercator, and then do a hit test on the geometries for each character of my ASCII art grid.
It looks (edit: mostly) OK when centered one the prime meridian:
But centered on New York City (lon_0=-74), and it suddenly goes haywire:
I'm fairly sure I'm doing something wrong with the projections here. (And it would probably be more efficient to transform the ASCII map coordinates to lat/lon than transform the whole geometry, but I am not sure how.)
import functools
import json
import shutil
import sys
import pyproj
import shapely.geometry
import shapely.ops
# Load the map
with open('world-countries.json') as f:
countries = []
for feature in json.load(f)['features']:
# buffer(0) is a trick for fixing polygons with overlapping coordinates
country = shapely.geometry.shape(feature['geometry']).buffer(0)
countries.append(country)
mapgeom = shapely.geometry.MultiPolygon(countries)
# Apply a projection
tform = functools.partial(
pyproj.transform,
pyproj.Proj(proj='longlat'), # input: WGS84
pyproj.Proj(proj='webmerc', lon_0=0), # output: Web Mercator
)
mapgeom = shapely.ops.transform(tform, mapgeom)
# Convert to ASCII art
minx, miny, maxx, maxy = mapgeom.bounds
srcw = maxx - minx
srch = maxy - miny
dstw, dsth = shutil.get_terminal_size((80, 20))
for y in range(dsth):
for x in range(dstw):
pt = shapely.geometry.Point(
(srcw*x/dstw) + minx,
(srch*(dsth-y-1)/dsth) + miny # flip vertically
)
if any(country.contains(pt) for country in mapgeom):
sys.stdout.write('*')
else:
sys.stdout.write(' ')
sys.stdout.write('\n')

I made edit at the bottom, discovering new problem (why there is no Canada and unreliability of Shapely and Pyproj)
Even though its not exactly solving the problem, I believe this attitude has more potential than using pyproc and Shapely and in future, if you will do more Ascii art, will give you more possibilites and flexibility. Firstly I will write pros and cons.
PS: Initialy I wanted to find problem in your code, but I had problems with running it, because pyproj was returning me some error.
PROS
1) I was able to extract all points (Canada is really missing) and rotate image
2) The processing is very fast and therefore you can create Animated Ascii art.
3) Printing is done all at once without need to loop
CONS (known Issues, solvable)
1) This attitude is definetly not translating geo-coordinates correctly - too plane, it should look more spherical
2) I didnt take time to try to find out solution to filling the borders, so only borders has '*'. Therefore this attitude needs to find algorithm to fill the countries. I think it shouldnt be problem since the JSON file contains countries separated
3) You need 2 extra libs beside numpy - opencv(you can use PIL instead) and Colorama, because my example is animated and I needed to 'clean' terminal by moving cursor to (0,0) instead of using os.system('cls')
4) I made it run only in python 3. In python 2 it works too but I am getting error with sys.stdout.buffer
Change font size on terminal to lowest point so the the printed chars fit in terminal. Smaller the font, better resolution
The animation should look like the map is 'rotating'
I used little bit of your code to extract the data. Steps are in the commentaries
import json
import sys
import numpy as np
import colorama
import sys
import time
import cv2
#understand terminal_size as how many letters in X axis and how many in Y axis. Sorry not good name
if len(sys.argv)>1:
terminal_size = (int(sys.argv[1]),int(sys.argv[2]))
else:
terminal_size=(230,175)
with open('world-countries.json') as f:
countries = []
minimal = 0 # This can be dangerous. Expecting negative values
maximal = 0 # Expecting bigger values than 0
for feature in json.load(f)['features']: # getting data - I pretend here, that geo coordinates are actually indexes of my numpy array
indexes = np.int16(np.array(feature['geometry']['coordinates'][0])*2)
if indexes.min()<minimal:
minimal = indexes.min()
if indexes.max()>maximal:
maximal = indexes.max()
countries.append(indexes)
countries = (np.array(countries)+np.abs(minimal)) # Transform geo-coordinates to image coordinates
correction = np.abs(minimal) # because geo-coordinates has negative values, I need to move it to 0 - xaxis
colorama.init()
def move_cursor(x,y):
print ("\x1b[{};{}H".format(y+1,x+1))
move = 0 # 'rotate' the globe
for i in range(1000):
image = np.zeros(shape=[maximal+correction+1,maximal+correction+1]) #creating clean image
move -=1 # you need to rotate with negative values
# because negative one are by numpy understood. Positive one will end up with error
for i in countries: # VERY STRANGE,because parsing the json, some countries has different JSON structure
if len(i.shape)==2:
image[i[:,1],i[:,0]+move]=255 # indexes that once were geocoordinates now serves to position the countries in the image
if len(i.shape)==3:
image[i[0][:,1],i[0][:,0]+move]=255
cut = np.where(image==255) # Bounding box
if move == -1: # creating here bounding box - removing empty edges - from sides and top and bottom - we need space. This needs to be done only once
max_x,min_x = cut[0].max(),cut[0].min()
max_y,min_y = cut[1].max(),cut[1].min()
new_image = image[min_x:max_x,min_y:max_y] # the bounding box
new_image= new_image[::-1] # reverse, because map is upside down
new_image = cv2.resize(new_image,terminal_size) # resize so it fits inside terminal
ascii = np.chararray(shape = new_image.shape).astype('|S4') #create container for asci image
ascii[:,:]='' #chararray contains some random letters - dunno why... cleaning it
ascii[:,-1]='\n' #because I pring everything all at once, I am creating new lines at the end of the image
new_image[:,-1]=0 # at the end of the image can be country borders which would overwrite '\n' created one step above
ascii[np.where(new_image>0)]='*' # transforming image array to chararray. Better to say, anything that has pixel value higher than 0 will be star in chararray mask
move_cursor(0,0) # 'cleaning' the terminal for new animation
sys.stdout.buffer.write(ascii) # print into terminal
time.sleep(0.025) # FPS
Maybe it would be good to explain what is the main algorithm in the code. I like to use numpy whereever I can. The whole thing is that I pretend that coordinates in the image, or whatever it may be (in your case geo-coordinates) are matrix indexes. I have then 2 Matrixes - Real Image and Charray as Mask. I then take indexes of interesting pixels in Real image and for the same indexes in Charray Mask I assign any letter I want. Thanks to this, the whole algorithm doesnt need a single loop.
About Future posibilities
Imagine you will also have information about terrain(altitude). Let say you somehow create grayscale image of world map where gray shades expresses altitude. Such grayscale image would have shape x,y. You will prepare 3Dmatrix with shape = [x,y,256]. For each layer out of 256 in the 3D matrix, you assign one letter ' ....;;;;### and so on' that will express shade.
When you have this prepared, you can take your grayscale image where any pixel will actually have 3 coordinates: x,y and shade value. So you will have 3 arrays of indexes out of your grascale map image -> x,y,shade. Your new charray will simply be extraction of your 3Dmatrix with layer letters, because:
#Preparation phase
x,y = grayscale.shape
3Dmatrix = np.chararray(shape = [x,y,256])
table = ' ......;;;;;;;###### ...'
for i in range(256):
3Dmatrix[:,:,i] = table[i]
x_indexes = np.arange(x*y)
y_indexes = np.arange(x*y)
chararray_image = np.chararray(shape=[x,y])
# Ready to print
...
shades = grayscale.reshape(x*y)
chararray_image[:,:] = 3Dmatrix[(x_indexes ,y_indexes ,shades)].reshape(x,y)
Because there is no loop in this process and you can print chararray all at once, you can actually print movie into terminal with huge FPS
For example if you have footage of rotating earth, you can make something like this - (250*70 letters), render time 0.03658s
You can ofcourse take it into extreme and make super-resolution in your terminal, but resulting FPS is not that good: 0.23157s, that is approximately 4-5 FPS. Interesting to note is, that this attitude FPS is enourmous, but terminal simply cannot handle printing, so this low FPS is due to limitations of terminal and not of calculation as calculation of this high resolution took 0.00693s, that is 144 FPS.
BIG EDIT - contradicting some of above statements
I accidentaly opened raw json file and find out, there is CANADA and RUSSIA with full correct coordinates. I made mistake to rely on the fact that we both didnt have canada in the result, so I expected my code is ok. Inside JSON, the data has different NOT-UNIFIED structure. Russia and Canada has 'Multipolygon', so you need to iterate over it.
What does it mean? Dont rely on Shapely and pyproj. Obviously they cant extract some countries and if they cant do it reliably, you cant expect them to do anything more complicated.
After modifying the code, everything is allright
CODE: This is how to load the file correctly
...
with open('world-countries.json') as f:
countries = []
minimal = 0
maximal = 0
for feature in json.load(f)['features']: # getting data - I pretend here, that geo coordinates are actually indexes of my numpy array
for k in range((len(feature['geometry']['coordinates']))):
indexes = np.int64(np.array(feature['geometry']['coordinates'][k]))
if indexes.min()<minimal:
minimal = indexes.min()
if indexes.max()>maximal:
maximal = indexes.max()
countries.append(indexes)
...

Reading a .VTK polydata file and converting it into Numpy array

I want to convert a .VTK ASCII polydata file into numpy array of just the coordinates of the points. I first tried this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11894302 but it stores a (3,3) numpy array where each entry is actually the coordinates of THREE points that make that particular cell (in this case a triangle). However, I don't want the cells, I want the coordinates of each point (without repeatition). Next I tried this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/23359921/6619666 with some modifications. Here is my final code. Instead of numpy array, the values are being stored as a tuple but I am not sure if that tuple represents each point.
import sys
import numpy
import vtk
from vtk.util.numpy_support import vtk_to_numpy
reader = vtk.vtkPolyDataReader()
reader.SetFileName('Filename.vtk')
reader.ReadAllScalarsOn()
reader.ReadAllVectorsOn()
reader.Update()
nodes_vtk_array= reader.GetOutput().GetPoints().GetData()
print nodes_vtk_array
Please give suggestions.

You can use dataset_adapter from vtk.numpy_interface:
from vtk.numpy_interface import dataset_adapter as dsa
polydata = reader.GetOutput()
numpy_array_of_points = dsa.WrapDataObject(polydata).Points
From Kitware blog:
It is possible to access PointData, CellData, FieldData, Points
(subclasses of vtkPointSet only), Polygons (vtkPolyData only) this
way.

You can get the point coordinates from a polydata object like so:
polydata = reader.GetOutput()
points = polydata.GetPoints()
array = points.GetData()
numpy_nodes = vtk_to_numpy(array)

Collapsing / Flattening a FITS data cube in python

I've looked all over the place and am not finding a solution to this issue. I feel like it should be fairly straightforward, but we'll see.
I have a .FITS format data cube and I need to collapse it into a 2D FITS image. The data cube has two spacial dimensions and one spectral/velocity dimension.
Just looking for a simple python routine to load in the cube and flatten all these layers (i.e. integrate them along the spectral/velocity axis). Thanks for any help.

This tutorial on pyfits is a little old, but still basically correct. The key is that the output of opening a FITS cube with pyfits (or astropy.io.fits) is that you have a 3 dimensional numpy array.
import pyfits
# if you are using astropy then for this example
# from astropy.io import fits as pyfits
data_cube, header_data_cube = pyfits.getdata("data_cube.fits", 0, header=True)
data_cube.shape
# (Z, X, Y)
You then have to decided how to flatten/integrate cube along the Z axis, and there are plenty of resources out there to help you decide the right (hopefully based in some analysis framework) to do that.

OK, this seems to work:
import pyfits
import numpy as np
hdulist = pyfits.open(filename)
header = hdulist[0].header
data = hdulist[0].data
data = np.nan_to_num(data)
new_data = data[0]
for i in range(1,84): #this depends on number of layers or pages
new_data += data[i]
hdu = pyfits.PrimaryHDU(new_data)
hdu.writeto(new_filename)
One problem with this routine is that WCS coordinates (which are attached to the original data cube) are lost during this conversion.

This is a bit of an old question, but spectral-cube now provides a better solution for this.
Example, based on Teachey's answer:
from spectral_cube import SpectralCube
cube = SpectralCube.read(filename)
summed_image = cube.sum(axis=0)
summed_image.hdu.writeto(new_filename)