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Raster Tools: An Open Source Toolbox for Raster Processing

Raster Tools: An Open Source Toolbox for Raster Processing - Published in JOSS (2026)

https://github.com/um-rmrs/raster_tools

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RMRS Raster Utility Project

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  • Stars: 43
  • Watchers: 7
  • Forks: 16
  • Open Issues: 10
  • Releases: 0
Created almost 5 years ago · Last pushed 21 days ago
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README.md

Raster Tools

Python tools for lazy, parallel geospatial raster processing.

Introduction

Raster Tools is a Python package that facilitates a wide range of geospatial, statistical, and machine learning analyses using delayed and automated parallel processing for rasters. It seeks to bridge the gaps in Python's data stack for processing raster data and to make building processing and analysis pipelines easier. With Raster Tools, operations can be easily chained together, eliminating the need to write intermediate results and saving on storage space. The use of Dask, also enables out-of-core processing so rasters larger than the available memory can be processed in chunks.

Under the hood, Raster Tools uses Dask to parallelize tasks and delay operations, Rasterio, rioxarray, and odc-geo for geospatial operations, and Numba for accelerating Python code. Limited support is also provided for working with Vector data using dask-geopandas.

Install

Pip

sh pip install raster-tools

Conda

sh conda install -c conda-forge cfgrib dask-geopandas dask-image fiona netcdf4 numba odc-geo pyogrio rioxarray scipy pip install --no-deps raster-tools

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  • Name: UM-RMRS
  • Login: UM-RMRS
  • Kind: organization

JOSS Publication

Raster Tools: An Open Source Toolbox for Raster Processing
Published
March 24, 2026
DOI
Volume 11, Issue 119, Page 8134
Authors
Fredrick Bunt ORCID
University of Montana, USA
Jesse Johnson ORCID
University of Montana, USA
John Hogland ORCID
Rocky Mountain Research Station, USA
Editor
Kanishka B. Narayan ORCID
Tags
raster rasters raster processing parallel geospatial GIS remote sensing
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GitHub Events

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  • Pull request event: 2
  • Fork event: 2
  • Issues event: 10
  • Watch event: 7
  • Issue comment event: 7
  • Push event: 73
  • Create event: 10
Last Year
  • Release event: 4
  • Delete event: 1
  • Fork event: 1
  • Issues event: 4
  • Watch event: 6
  • Issue comment event: 2
  • Push event: 23
  • Create event: 2

Committers

Last synced: 6 months ago

All Time
  • Total Commits: 730
  • Total Committers: 4
  • Avg Commits per committer: 182.5
  • Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.04
Past Year
  • Commits: 73
  • Committers: 2
  • Avg Commits per committer: 36.5
  • Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.014
Top Committers
Name Email Commits
Fred Bunt f****t@g****m 701
John Hogland j****d@u****v 26
Fred Bunt f****t@u****m 2
Lindsay Wiard 1****d@u****m 1
Committer Domains (Top 20 + Academic)
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Issues and Pull Requests

Last synced: 6 months ago

All Time
  • Total issues: 23
  • Total pull requests: 16
  • Average time to close issues: about 2 months
  • Average time to close pull requests: 1 day
  • Total issue authors: 6
  • Total pull request authors: 4
  • Average comments per issue: 0.83
  • Average comments per pull request: 0.31
  • Merged pull requests: 14
  • Bot issues: 0
  • Bot pull requests: 0
Past Year
  • Issues: 7
  • Pull requests: 1
  • Average time to close issues: 3 days
  • Average time to close pull requests: 2 minutes
  • Issue authors: 4
  • Pull request authors: 1
  • Average comments per issue: 0.29
  • Average comments per pull request: 1.0
  • Merged pull requests: 1
  • Bot issues: 0
  • Bot pull requests: 0
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Top Authors
Issue Authors
  • fbunt (9)
  • jshogland (9)
  • mllobera (2)
  • nagellette (1)
  • BonnieRuefenacht (1)
  • heitkamz (1)
Pull Request Authors
  • jshogland (12)
  • fbunt (2)
  • lindsaywiard (1)
  • Calvin-Nowlen (1)
Top Labels
Issue Labels
enhancement (11) bug (6) question (1)
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enhancement (4) bug (1)

Packages

  • Total packages: 1
  • Total downloads:
    • pypi 333 last-month
  • Total dependent packages: 0
  • Total dependent repositories: 1
  • Total versions: 52
  • Total maintainers: 2
pypi.org: raster-tools

Tools for processing geospatial data

  • Versions: 52
  • Dependent Packages: 0
  • Dependent Repositories: 1
  • Downloads: 333 Last month
Rankings
Forks count: 9.8%
Dependent packages count: 10.1%
Average: 14.5%
Stargazers count: 14.8%
Downloads: 16.1%
Dependent repos count: 21.6%
Maintainers (2)
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