I want to get a list of indices (row,col) for all raster cells that fall within or are intersected by a polygon feature. Looking for a solution in python, ideally with gdal/ogr modules.
Other posts have suggested rasterizing the polygon, but I would rather have direct access to the cell indices if possible.
Since you don't provide a working example, it's bit unclear what your starting point is. I made a dataset with 1 polygon, if you have a dataset with multiple but only want to target a specific polygon you can add SQLStatement or where to the gdal.Rasterize call.
geojson = """{"type":"FeatureCollection",
"name":"test",
"crs":{"type":"name","properties":{"name":"urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC:1.3:CRS84"}},
"features":[
{"type":"Feature","properties":{},"geometry":{"type":"MultiPolygon","coordinates":[[[[-110.254,44.915],[-114.176,37.644],[-105.729,36.41],[-105.05,43.318],[-110.254,44.915]]]]}}
]}"""
Rasterizing can be done with gdal.Rasterize. You need to specify the properties of the target grid. If there is no predefined grid these could be extracted from the polygon itself
ds = gdal.Rasterize('/vsimem/tmpfile', geojson, xRes=1, yRes=-1, allTouched=True,
outputBounds=[-120, 30, -100, 50], burnValues=1,
outputType=gdal.GDT_Byte)
mask = ds.ReadAsArray()
ds = None
gdal.Unlink('/vsimem/tmpfile')
Retrieving the indices from the rasterized polygon can be done with Numpy:
y_ind, x_ind = np.where(mask==1)
Clearly Rutger's solution above is the way to go with this, however I will leave my solution up. I developed a script that accomplished what I needed with the following:
ogr.Geometry.Intersects() to check if the cell intersects with the polygon featureNote that I have only defined the methods, but I think implementation should be pretty clear -- just call match_cells with the appropriate arguments (ogr.Geometry object and geotransform matrix). Code below:
from osgeo import ogr
# Convert projected coordinates to raster cell indices
def parse_coords(x,y,gt):
row,col = None,None
if x:
col = int((x - gt[0]) // gt[1])
# If only x coordinate is provided, return column index
if not y:
return col
if y:
row = int((y - gt[3]) // gt[5])
# If only x coordinate is provided, return column index
if not x:
return row
return (row,col)
# Construct polygon geometry from raster cell
def build_cell((row,col),gt):
xres,yres = gt[1],gt[5]
x_0,y_0 = gt[0],gt[3]
top = (yres*row) + y_0
bottom = (yres*(row+1)) + y_0
right = (xres*col) + x_0
left = (xres*(col+1)) + x_0
# Create ring topology
ring = ogr.Geometry(ogr.wkbLinearRing)
ring.AddPoint(left,bottom)
ring.AddPoint(right,bottom)
ring.AddPoint(right,top)
ring.AddPoint(left,top)
ring.AddPoint(left,bottom)
# Create polygon
box = ogr.Geometry(ogr.wkbPolygon)
box.AddGeometry(ring)
return box
# Iterate over feature geometries & check for intersection
def match_cells(inputGeometry,gt):
matched_cells = []
for f,feature in enumerate(inputGeometry):
geom = feature.GetGeometryRef()
bbox = geom.GetEnvelope()
xmin,xmax = [parse_coords(x,None,gt) for x in bbox[:2]]
ymin,ymax = [parse_coords(None,y,gt) for y in bbox[2:]]
for cell_row in range(ymax,ymin+1):
for cell_col in range(xmin,xmax+1):
cell_box = build_cell((cell_row,cell_col),gt)
if cell_box.Intersects(geom):
matched_cells += [[(cell_row,cell_col)]]
return matched_cells
if you want to do this manually you'll need to test each cell for: Square v Polygon intersection and Square v Line intersection.
If you treat each square as a 2d point this becomes easier - it's now a Point v Polygon problem. Check in Game Dev forums for collision algorithms.
Good luck!
