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Import external datasets

The Digital Earth Africa Sandbox allows users to add external data such as shapefiles and .geojson files to their algorithms.

This tutorial will take you through:

  1. The packages to import

  2. Setting the path for the vector file

  3. Loading the external dataset

  4. Displaying the dataset on a basemap

  5. Loading the satellite imagery by using the extent of the external dataset

  6. Mask the area of interest from the satellite imagery using the extenal dataset

For this tutorial, the example external dataset is in a shapefile format.

Note

Before you proceed, ensure you have completed all lessons in the DE Africa Six-Week Training Course.

Set up notebook

In your Training folder, create a new Python 3 notebook. Name it external_dataset.ipynb. For more instructions on creating a new notebook, see the instructions from Session 2.

Load packages and functions

In the first cell, type the following code and then run the cell to import necessary Python dependencies.

import sys
import datacube
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import geopandas as gpd

from datacube.utils import geometry

sys.path.append('../Scripts')
from deafrica_datahandling import load_ard, mostcommon_crs
from deafrica_plotting import map_shapefile, rgb
from deafrica_spatialtools import xr_rasterize

Take note of the packages below on how they were imported with other packages above.

These packages are the packages you will need when you want to use external dataset.

import geopandas as gpd
from datacube.utils import geometry
from deafrica_plotting import map_shapefile
from deafrica_spatialtools import xr_rasterize

Connect to the datacube

Enter the following code and run the cell to create our dc object, which provides access to the datacube.

dc = datacube.Datacube(app='import_dataset')

Create a folder called data in the Training directory. Download this zip file and extract on your local machine. Upload the reserve shapefile (cpg, dbf, shp, shx) into the data folder.

Create a variable called shapefile_path,to store the path of the shapefile as shown below.

shapefile_path = "data/reserve.shp"

Read the shapefile into a GeoDataFrame using the gpd.read_file function.

gdf = gpd.read_file(shapefile_path)

Convert all of the shapes into a datacube geometry using geometry.Geometry

geom = geometry.Geometry(gdf.unary_union, gdf.crs)

Use the map_shapefile function to display the shapefile on a basemap.

map_shapefile(gdf, attribute=gdf.columns[0], fillOpacity=0, weight=2)

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Create a query object

We will replace x and y with geopolygon, as shown below. We remove the x, y arguments and replace it with geopolygon.

query = {
    'x' : x,
    'y' : y,
    'group_by': 'solar_day',
    'time' : ('2019-01-15'),
     'resolution': (-10, 10),
}

Remove x, y from query and update with geopolygon:

query = {
    'geopolygon' : geom,
    'group_by': 'solar_day',
    'time' : ('2019-01-15'),
     'resolution': (-10, 10),
}

We then identify the most common projection system in the input query, and load the dataset ds.

output_crs = mostcommon_crs(dc=dc, product='s2_l2a', query=query)

ds = load_ard(dc=dc,
              products=['s2_l2a],
              output_crs=output_crs,
              measurements=["red","green","blue"],
              **query
             )

Print the ds result.

ds

Ploting of the result

We will dipslay the returned dataset using the rgb functions.

rgb(ds)

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Rasterise the shapefile

Before we can apply the shapefile data as a mask, we need to convert the shapefile to a raster using the xr_rasterize function.

mask = xr_rasterize(gdf, ds)

Mask the dataset

Mask the dataset using the ds.where and mask to set pixels outside the polygon to NaN.

ds = ds.where(mask)

Plot the masked result of the dataset

rgb(ds)

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Conclusion

You can apply this method to already exisiting notebooks you are working with. It is useful for selecting specific areas of interest, and for transferring information between the Sandbox and GIS platorms.