Use rasterio's transform instead of homemade coordinates

doc/io.rst

@@ -512,10 +512,14 @@ rasterio is installed. Here is an example of how to use
     [1703814 values with dtype=uint8]
     Coordinates:
       * band     (band) int64 1 2 3
-      * y        (y) float64 2.827e+06 2.827e+06 2.826e+06 2.826e+06 2.826e+06 ...
-      * x        (x) float64 1.02e+05 1.023e+05 1.026e+05 1.029e+05 1.032e+05 ...
+      * y        (y) float64 2.827e+06 2.826e+06 2.826e+06 2.826e+06 2.826e+06 ...
+      * x        (x) float64 1.021e+05 1.024e+05 1.027e+05 1.03e+05 1.033e+05 ...
     Attributes:
-        crs:      +init=epsg:32618
+        res:        (300.0379266750948, 300.041782729805)
+        transform:  (300.0379266750948, 0.0, 101985.0, 0.0, -300.041782729805, 28...
+        is_tiled:   0
+        crs:        +init=epsg:32618
+
 
 The ``x`` and ``y`` coordinates are generated out of the file's metadata
 (``bounds``, ``width``, ``height``), and they can be understood as cartesian

xarray/backends/rasterio_.py

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 import os
+import warnings
 from collections import OrderedDict
+from distutils.version import LooseVersion
 import numpy as np
 
 from .. import DataArray
@@ -113,7 +115,8 @@ def default(s):
     return parsed_meta
 
 
-def open_rasterio(filename, chunks=None, cache=None, lock=None):
+def open_rasterio(filename, parse_coordinates=None, chunks=None, cache=None,
+                  lock=None):
     """Open a file with rasterio (experimental).
 
     This should work with any file that rasterio can open (most often:
@@ -123,15 +126,25 @@ def open_rasterio(filename, chunks=None, cache=None, lock=None):
     <http://web.archive.org/web/20160326194152/http://remotesensing.org/geotiff/spec/geotiff2.5.html#2.5.2>`_
     for more information).
 
+    You can generate 2D coordinates from the file's attributes with::
+
+        from affine import Affine
+        da = xr.open_rasterio('path_to_file.tif')
+        transform = Affine(*da.attrs['transform'])
+        nx, ny = da.sizes['x'], da.sizes['y']
+        x, y = np.meshgrid(np.arange(nx)+0.5, np.arange(ny)+0.5) * transform
+
+
     Parameters
     ----------
     filename : str
         Path to the file to open.
-
-    Returns
-    -------
-    data : DataArray
-        The newly created DataArray.
+    parse_coordinates : bool, optional
+        Whether to parse the x and y coordinates out of the file's
+        ``transform`` attribute or not. The default is to automatically
+        parse the coordinates only if they are rectilinear (1D).
+        It can be useful to set ``parse_coordinates=False``
+        if your files are very large or if you don't need the coordinates.
     chunks : int, tuple or dict, optional
         Chunk sizes along each dimension, e.g., ``5``, ``(5, 5)`` or
         ``{'x': 5, 'y': 5}``. If chunks is provided, it used to load the new
@@ -146,6 +159,11 @@ def open_rasterio(filename, chunks=None, cache=None, lock=None):
         :py:func:`dask.array.from_array`. By default, a global lock is
         used to avoid issues with concurrent access to the same file when using
         dask's multithreaded backend.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    data : DataArray
+        The newly created DataArray.
     """
 
     import rasterio
@@ -161,18 +179,38 @@ def open_rasterio(filename, chunks=None, cache=None, lock=None):
         raise ValueError('Unknown dims')
     coords['band'] = np.asarray(riods.indexes)
 
-    # Get geo coords
-    nx, ny = riods.width, riods.height
-    dx, dy = riods.res[0], -riods.res[1]
-    x0 = riods.bounds.right if dx < 0 else riods.bounds.left
-    y0 = riods.bounds.top if dy < 0 else riods.bounds.bottom
-    coords['y'] = np.linspace(start=y0 + dy / 2, num=ny,
-                              stop=(y0 + (ny - 1) * dy) + dy / 2)
-    coords['x'] = np.linspace(start=x0 + dx / 2, num=nx,
-                              stop=(x0 + (nx - 1) * dx) + dx / 2)
+    # Get coordinates
+    if LooseVersion(rasterio.__version__) < '1.0':
+        transform = riods.affine
+    else:
+        transform = riods.transform
+    if transform.is_rectilinear:
+        # 1d coordinates
+        parse = True if parse_coordinates is None else parse_coordinates
+        if parse:
+            nx, ny = riods.width, riods.height
+            # xarray coordinates are pixel centered
+            x, _ = (np.arange(nx)+0.5, np.zeros(nx)+0.5) * transform
+            _, y = (np.zeros(ny)+0.5, np.arange(ny)+0.5) * transform
+            coords['y'] = y
+            coords['x'] = x
+    else:
+        # 2d coordinates
+        parse = False if (parse_coordinates is None) else parse_coordinates
+        if parse:
+            warnings.warn("The file coordinates' transformation isn't "
+                          "rectilinear: xarray won't parse the coordinates "
+                          "in this case. Set `parse_coordinates=False` to "
+                          "suppress this warning.",
+                          RuntimeWarning, stacklevel=3)
 
     # Attributes
-    attrs = {}
+    attrs = dict()
+    # Affine transformation matrix (always available)
+    # This describes coefficients mapping pixel coordinates to CRS
+    # For serialization store as tuple of 6 floats, the last row being
+    # always (0, 0, 1) per definition (see https://github.com/sgillies/affine)
+    attrs['transform'] = tuple(transform)[:6]
     if hasattr(riods, 'crs') and riods.crs:
         # CRS is a dict-like object specific to rasterio
         # If CRS is not None, we convert it back to a PROJ4 string using

xarray/tests/test_backends.py

@@ -2227,30 +2227,96 @@ def test_utm(self):
         with create_tmp_geotiff() as (tmp_file, expected):
             with xr.open_rasterio(tmp_file) as rioda:
                 assert_allclose(rioda, expected)
-                assert 'crs' in rioda.attrs
                 assert isinstance(rioda.attrs['crs'], basestring)
-                assert 'res' in rioda.attrs
                 assert isinstance(rioda.attrs['res'], tuple)
-                assert 'is_tiled' in rioda.attrs
                 assert isinstance(rioda.attrs['is_tiled'], np.uint8)
-                assert 'transform' in rioda.attrs
                 assert isinstance(rioda.attrs['transform'], tuple)
 
+            # Check no parse coords
+            with xr.open_rasterio(tmp_file, parse_coordinates=False) as rioda:
+                assert 'x' not in rioda.coords
+                assert 'y' not in rioda.coords
+
+    def test_non_rectilinear(self):
+        import rasterio
+        from rasterio.transform import from_origin
+
+        # Create a geotiff file with 2d coordinates
+        with create_tmp_file(suffix='.tif') as tmp_file:
+            # data
+            nx, ny, nz = 4, 3, 3
+            data = np.arange(nx*ny*nz,
+                             dtype=rasterio.float32).reshape(nz, ny, nx)
+            transform = from_origin(0, 3, 1, 1).rotation(45)
+            with rasterio.open(
+                    tmp_file, 'w',
+                    driver='GTiff', height=ny, width=nx, count=nz,
+                    transform=transform,
+                    dtype=rasterio.float32) as s:
+                s.write(data)
+
+            # Default is to not parse coords
+            with xr.open_rasterio(tmp_file) as rioda:
+                assert 'x' not in rioda.coords
+                assert 'y' not in rioda.coords
+                assert 'crs' not in rioda.attrs
+                assert isinstance(rioda.attrs['res'], tuple)
+                assert isinstance(rioda.attrs['is_tiled'], np.uint8)
+                assert isinstance(rioda.attrs['transform'], tuple)
+
+            # See if a warning is raised if we force it
+            with self.assertWarns("transformation isn't rectilinear"):
+                with xr.open_rasterio(tmp_file,
+                                      parse_coordinates=True) as rioda:
+                    assert 'x' not in rioda.coords
+                    assert 'y' not in rioda.coords
+
     def test_platecarree(self):
         with create_tmp_geotiff(8, 10, 1, transform_args=[1, 2, 0.5, 2.],
                                 crs='+proj=latlong') \
                 as (tmp_file, expected):
             with xr.open_rasterio(tmp_file) as rioda:
                 assert_allclose(rioda, expected)
-                assert 'crs' in rioda.attrs
                 assert isinstance(rioda.attrs['crs'], basestring)
-                assert 'res' in rioda.attrs
                 assert isinstance(rioda.attrs['res'], tuple)
-                assert 'is_tiled' in rioda.attrs
                 assert isinstance(rioda.attrs['is_tiled'], np.uint8)
-                assert 'transform' in rioda.attrs
                 assert isinstance(rioda.attrs['transform'], tuple)
 
+    def test_notransform(self):
+        # regression test for https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1686
+        import rasterio
+        import warnings
+
+        # Create a geotiff file
+        with warnings.catch_warnings():
+            # rasterio throws a NotGeoreferencedWarning here, which is
+            # expected since we test rasterio's defaults in this case.
+            warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', category=UserWarning,
+                                    message='Dataset has no geotransform set')
+            with create_tmp_file(suffix='.tif') as tmp_file:
+                # data
+                nx, ny, nz = 4, 3, 3
+                data = np.arange(nx*ny*nz,
+                                 dtype=rasterio.float32).reshape(nz, ny, nx)
+                with rasterio.open(
+                        tmp_file, 'w',
+                        driver='GTiff', height=ny, width=nx, count=nz,
+                        dtype=rasterio.float32) as s:
+                    s.write(data)
+
+                # Tests
+                expected = DataArray(data,
+                                     dims=('band', 'y', 'x'),
+                                     coords={'band': [1, 2, 3],
+                                             'y': [0.5, 1.5, 2.5],
+                                             'x': [0.5, 1.5, 2.5, 3.5],
+                                             })
+                with xr.open_rasterio(tmp_file) as rioda:
+                    assert_allclose(rioda, expected)
+                    assert isinstance(rioda.attrs['res'], tuple)
+                    assert isinstance(rioda.attrs['is_tiled'], np.uint8)
+                    assert isinstance(rioda.attrs['transform'], tuple)
+
     def test_indexing(self):
         with create_tmp_geotiff(8, 10, 3, transform_args=[1, 2, 0.5, 2.],
                                 crs='+proj=latlong') as (tmp_file, expected):