Work With Multi-Band Rasters in Python

Overview

Teaching: 40 min
Exercises: 20 min

Questions

• How can I visualize individual and multiple bands in a raster object?

Objectives

• Identify a single vs. a multi-band raster file.

• Import multi-band rasters into Python using the rasterio package.

• Plot multi-band color image rasters in R using the earthpy package.

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Key Points

• A single raster file can contain multiple bands or layers.

• Use the earthpy.stack() function to load all bands spread across individual files into Python

• Individual bands within a stack can be accessed, analyzed, and visualized using the same functions as single bands.