EarthPy

EarthPy makes it easier to plot and manipulate spatial data in Python.

Why EarthPy?

Python is a generic programming language designed to support many different applications. Because of this, many commonly performed spatial tasks for science including plotting and working with spatial data take many steps of code. EarthPy builds upon the functionality developed for raster data (rasterio) and vector data (geopandas) in Python and simplifies the code needed to:

• Stack and crop raster bands from data such as Landsat into an easy to use numpy array
• Work with masks to set bad pixels such a those covered by clouds and cloud-shadows to NA (mask_pixels())
• Plot rgb (color), color infrared and other 3 band combination images (plot_rgb())
• Plot bands of a raster quickly using plot_bands()
• Plot histograms for a set of raster files.
• Create discrete (categorical) legends
• Calculate vegetation indices such as Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (normalized_diff())
• Create hillshade from a DEM
• Clip point, line, and polygon geometries

EarthPy also has an io module that allows users to

1. Quickly access pre-created data subsets used in the earth-analytics courses hosted on www.earthdatascience.org
2. Download other datasets that they may want to use in their workflows.

EarthPy's design was inspired by the raster and sp package functionality available to R users.

View Example EarthPy Applications in Our Documentation Gallery

Check out our vignette gallery for applied examples of using EarthPy in common spatial workflows.

Install

EarthPy can be installed using pip, but we strongly recommend that you install it using conda and the conda-forge channel.

Install Using Conda / conda-forge Channel (Preferred)

If you are working within an Anaconda environment, we suggest that you install EarthPy using conda-forge

$ conda install -c conda-forge earthpy

Note: if you want to set conda-forge as your default conda channel, you can use the following install workflow. We recommmend this approach. Once you have run conda config, you can install earthpy without specifying a channel.

$ conda config --add channels conda-forge
$ conda install earthpy

Install via Pip

EarthPy uses the rtree package for some of its operations which depends upon libspatialindex. This package can be challenging to install using pip whereas it will automagically be installed if you use conda.

To install EarthPy via pip use:

$ pip install --upgrade earthpy

Once you have successfully installed EarthPy, you can import it into Python.

>>> import earthpy.plot as ep

Below is a quick example of plotting multiple bands in a numpy array format.

>>> arr = np.random.randint(4, size=(3, 5, 5))
>>> ep.plot_bands(arr, titles=["Band 1", "Band 2", "Band 3"])
>>> plt.show()

Active Maintainers

We welcome contributions to EarthPy. Below are the current active package maintainers. Please see our contributors file for a complete list of all of our contributors.

Contributors

We've welcome any and all contributions. Below are some of the contributors to EarthPy. We are currently trying to update this list!!

How to Contribute

We welcome contributions to EarthPy! Please be sure to check out our contributing guidelines for more information about submitting pull requests or changes to EarthPy.

License & Citation

BSD-3

Citation Information

When citing EarthPy, please cite our JOSS paper:

@article{Wasser2019EarthPy,
	journal = {Journal of Open Source Software},
	doi = {10.21105/joss.01886},
	issn = {2475-9066},
	number = {43},
	publisher = {The Open Journal},
	title = {EarthPy: A Python package that makes it easier to explore and plot raster and vector data using open source Python tools.},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01886},
	volume = {4},
	author = {Wasser, Leah and Joseph, Maxwell and McGlinchy, Joe and Palomino, Jenny and Korinek, Nathan and Holdgraf, Chris and Head, Tim},
	pages = {1886},
	date = {2019-11-13},
	year = {2019},
	month = {11},
	day = {13},
}