How to visualize multiband imagery using rasterio?
The Rasterio Plotting documentation describes how to visualize multiband imagery. For example, using 4-band NAIP imagery:
import rasterio
from rasterio.plot import show
src = rasterio.open("path/to/your/image/m_3511642_sw_11_1_20140704.tif")
show(src)
To visualize specific band combination use the following approach (source). In this case, I am creating a false color composite image using the NIR band:
import rasterio
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# Open the file:
raster = rasterio.open('path/to/your/image/m_3511642_sw_11_1_20140704.tif')
# Normalize bands into 0.0 - 1.0 scale
def normalize(array):
array_min, array_max = array.min(), array.max()
return (array - array_min) / (array_max - array_min)
# Convert to numpy arrays
nir = raster.read(4)
red = raster.read(3)
green = raster.read(2)
# Normalize band DN
nir_norm = normalize(nir)
red_norm = normalize(red)
green_norm = normalize(green)
# Stack bands
nrg = np.dstack((nir_norm, red_norm, green_norm))
# View the color composite
plt.imshow(nrg)