Fundamentals

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• Composition from Rasterio and GeoPandas
  • The Raster class composition
  • The Vector class composition
• Match-reference functionality
  • What is match-reference ?
  • Why the need for match-reference?
  • Matching with a Raster or a Vector reference
  • Geospatial handling rules for match-reference
  • Other operations supporting match-reference
• Support of pythonic operators
  • Arithmetic of Raster classes
  • Logical comparisons cast to Mask
  • Logical bitwise operations on Mask
  • Indexing a Raster with a Mask
• Masked-array NumPy interface
  • Universal functions
  • Array functions
  • Respecting masked values
• Implicit lazy loading
  • Lazy instantiation of Rasters
  • Lazy passing of georeferencing metadata
  • Optimized geospatial subsetting
• Sensor metadata parsing
  • Parsing metadata at raster instantiation
  • Supported sensors
• Inheritance to DEMs and beyond
  • Overview of Raster inheritance
  • And beyond