Georeferencing¶

Miscellaneous¶

`bin_altitude`	Calculates the height of a radar bin taking the refractivity of the atmosphere into account.
`bin_distance`	Calculates great circle distance from radar site to radar bin over spherical earth, taking the refractivity of the atmosphere into account.
`site_distance`	Calculates great circle distance from bin at certain altitude to the radar site over spherical earth, taking the refractivity of the atmosphere into account.
`get_earth_radius`	Get the radius of the Earth (in km) for a given Spheroid model (sr) at a given position.

`spherical_to_xyz`	Transforms spherical coordinates (r, phi, theta) to cartesian coordinates (x, y, z) centered at sitecoords (aeqd).
`spherical_to_proj`	Transforms spherical coordinates (r, phi, theta) to projected coordinates centered at sitecoords in given projection.
`spherical_to_polyvert`	Generate 3-D polygon vertices directly from spherical coordinates (r, phi, theta).
`spherical_to_centroids`	Generate 3-D centroids of the radar bins from the sperical coordinates (r, phi, theta).
`centroid_to_polyvert`	Calculates the 2-D Polygon vertices necessary to form a rectangular polygon around the centroid’s coordinates.
`sweep_centroids`	Construct sweep centroids native coordinates.

`reproject`	Transform coordinates from a source projection to a target projection.
`create_osr`	Conveniently supports the construction of osr spatial reference objects
`proj4_to_osr`	Transform a proj4 string to an osr spatial reference object
`epsg_to_osr`	Create osr spatial reference object from EPSG number
`wkt_to_osr`	Create osr spatial reference object from WKT string

`read_gdal_values`	Read values from a gdal object.
`read_gdal_projection`	Get a projection (OSR object) from a GDAL dataset.
`read_gdal_coordinates`	Get the projected coordinates from a GDAL dataset.
`pixel_to_map3d`	Apply a geographical transformation to return 3D map coordinates from pixel coordinates.
`pixel_to_map`	Apply a geographical transformation to return map coordinates from pixel coordinates.
`pixel_coordinates`	Get pixel coordinates from a regular grid with dimension nx by ny.
`reproject_raster_dataset`	Reproject/Resample given dataset according to keyword arguments
`create_raster_dataset`	Create In-Memory Raster Dataset
`set_raster_origin`	Converts Data and Coordinates Origin
`extract_raster_dataset`	Extract data, coordinates and projection information

`get_vector_coordinates`	Function iterates over gdal ogr layer features and packs extracted vector coordinate points into nested ndarray
`get_vector_points`	Extract coordinate points from given ogr geometry as generator object
`transform_geometry`	Perform geotransformation to given destination SpatialReferenceSystem
`ogr_create_layer`	Creates OGR.Layer objects in gdal.Dataset object.
`ogr_copy_layer`	Copy OGR.Layer object.
`ogr_copy_layer_by_name`	Copy OGR.Layer object.
`ogr_add_feature`	Creates OGR.Feature objects in OGR.Layer object.
`ogr_add_geometry`	Copies single OGR.Geometry object to an OGR.Layer object.
`numpy_to_ogr`	Convert a vertex array to gdal/ogr geometry.
`ogr_to_numpy`	Backconvert a gdal/ogr geometry to a numpy vertex array.
`ogr_geocol_to_numpy`	Backconvert a gdal/ogr geometry Collection to a numpy vertex array.
`get_centroid`	Return centroid of a polygon

`get_radolan_coords`	Calculates x,y coordinates of radolan grid from lon, lat
`get_radolan_grid`	Calculates x/y coordinates of radolan grid of the German Weather Service
`xyz_to_spherical`	Returns spherical representation (r, theta, phi) of given cartesian coordinates (x, y, z) with respect to the reference altitude (asl) considering earth’s geometry (proj).

`correct_parallax`	Adjust the geo-locations of the SR pixels
`dist_from_orbit`	Returns range distances of SR bins (in meters) as seen from the orbit