Examples — "How do I…?"#

A task-oriented index of the runnable example notebooks. Find the operation you need, open the notebook. Every notebook runs offline on the repository's test data.

Read, write & convert #

I want to…	Notebook
Open a raster and read values	Dataset basics
Convert GeoTIFF ↔ NetCDF (incl. bands ↔ variables)	GeoTIFF ↔ NetCDF
Convert between raster formats (ASCII / COG / Zarr)	Other raster formats
Convert between vector formats (SHP / GPKG / GeoParquet)	Vector formats
Read only part of a raster (window / tile / bbox)	Windowed & tiled reads

Transform & align #

I want to…	Notebook
Reproject, resample, or align to a reference grid	Reproject, resample & align
Crop / mask to a polygon or bounding box	Crop & mask
Mosaic tiles or stack bands into one raster	Mosaic & merge
Handle no-data and fill gaps	No-data & gap filling

Analyse #

I want to…	Notebook
Compute zonal statistics per polygon	Zonal statistics
Sample / extract raster values at points	Extract at points
Derive slope / aspect / hillshade from a DEM	Terrain analysis
Do raster algebra (`apply` / `map_blocks` / `overlay`)	Raster algebra

Vector & raster–vector #

I want to…	Notebook
Rasterize a vector / vectorize a raster	Rasterize ↔ vectorize
Build & reshape vector geometry	Vector geometry toolkit

Visualize #

I want to…	Notebook
Render a raster (image / plot / histogram)	Visualization gallery
Read & write colour tables / band colours	Color tables & band colors
Build overviews (image pyramids)	Overviews

Scale out (lazy / Dask)#

I want to…	Notebook
Use pyramids with Dask — overview	Using pyramids with Dask
Lazy raster / collection / vector / NetCDF	Dataset · Collection · Feature · NetCDF

Cloud & catalogs #

I want to…	Notebook
Read Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs	COG basics
Search & load a STAC catalog	STAC (local)
Work with Zarr stores	Zarr basics