# georaster

**Repository Path**: mirrors_rowanwins/georaster

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: georaster
- **Description**: Wrapper around Georeferenced Rasters like GeoTIFF and soon JPG and PNG that provides a standard interface
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Apache-2.0
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2022-04-14
- **Last Updated**: 2026-01-03

## Categories & Tags

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**Tags**: None

## README

# georaster
Wrapper around Georeferenced Rasters like GeoTIFF, NetCDF, JPG, and PNG that provides a standard interface.  You can also create your own georaster from simple JavaScript objects.

# load from url on front-end
```javascript
const parseGeoraster = require("georaster");
fetch(url)
  .then(response => response.arrayBuffer() )
  .then(parseGeoraster)
  .then(georaster => {
      console.log("georaster:", georaster);
  });
```

# load from file on back-end
```javascript
const parseGeoraster = require("georaster");
fs.readFile("data/GeogToWGS84GeoKey5.tif", (error, data) => {
    parseGeoraster(data).then(georaster => {
      console.log("georaster:", georaster);
    })
});
```

# load from simple object on front-end
```javascript
const parseGeoraster = require("georaster");
const values = [ [ [0, 1, 2], [0, 0, 0], [2, 1, 1] ] ];
const noDataValue = 3;
const projection = 4326;
const xmin = -40;
const ymax = 14;
const pixelWidth = 0.00001;
const pixelHeight = 0.00001;
const metadata = { noDataValue, projection, xmin, ymax, pixelWidth, pixelHeight };
const georaster = parseGeoraster(values, metadata);
```

# load [cloud optimized geotiff](https://www.cogeo.org/)
This option allows you to basically load the pixels only when you need them versus the other options
that require you to load the whole image into memory.  It will also attempt to automatically discover any available overview files.

*where to clip*

`top` is how many pixels from the **top** of the image to skip over before we start clipping

`bottom` is how many pixels from the **bottom** of the image to skip over before we start clipping

`left` is how many pixels in from the **left** side of the image to skip over before we start clipping

`right` is how many pixels in from the **right** side of the image to skip over before we start clipping


*clipping resolution*

`width` is how many pixels **wide** should be the returned image.  This helps to configure the resolution.

`height` is how many pixels **tall** should be the returned image.  This helps to configure the resolution.

*resampling*

`resampleMethod` is how to resample the pixels for the returned image.  This value is passed on to [geotiff.js](https://github.com/geotiffjs/geotiff.js)' readRasters function and defaults to 'bilinear'.  The alternative is 'nearest', which is faster and better for categorical data like landcover and continous classes with smooth variation like temperature.

```javascript
  const raster_url = "https://landsat-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/c1/L8/024/030/LC08_L1TP_024030_20180723_20180731_01_T1/LC08_L1TP_024030_20180723_20180731_01_T1_B1.TIF";
  parseGeoraster(raster_url).then(georaster => {
    console.log(georaster.height);
    const options = { left: 0, top: 0, right: 4000, bottom: 4000, width: 10, height: 10 };
    georaster.getValues(options).then(values => {
      console.log("clipped values are", values);
    });
  });
```

# required properties
| name | description |
| ---- | ----------- |
| maxs | array with max value for each band |
| mins | array with min value for each band |
| ranges | array with difference between max and min value for each band |
| noDataValue | no data value |
| pixelWidth | width of pixel in dimension of coordinate reference system |
| pixelHeight | height of pixel in dimension of coordinate reference system |
| projection | equal to EPSG code, like 4326 |
| values | two dimensional array of pixel values (for Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF's, use `getValues` instead)  |
| width | number of pixels wide raster is |
| xmax | xmax in crs, which is often in longitude |
| xmin | xmin in crs, which is often in longitude |
| ymin | ymin in crs, which is often in latitude |
| ymax | ymax in crs, which is often in latitude |

# optional properties
| name | description |
| ---- | ----------- |
| palette | Array that maps raster values to RGBA colors |

# functions
| name | description |
| ---- | ----------- |
| getValues | described above |
| toCanvas | experimental! returns a canvas picture of the data.  You can pass in options object with height or width specified |

# loading georaster package through a script tag
```html
<script src="https://unpkg.com/georaster"></script>
```
You can view a simple demo of this [here](https://geotiff.github.io/georaster/test/)

# Support
Post a Github issue or contact the package author, Daniel J. Dufour, at daniel.j.dufour@gmail.com