Metadata-Version: 2.0
Name: rio-merge-rgba
Version: 0.2.0
Summary: rio merge alternative optimized for RGBA
Home-page: https://github.com/mapbox/rio-merge-rgba
Author: Matthew Perry
Author-email: perry@mapbox.com
License: MIT
Platform: UNKNOWN
Requires-Dist: click
Requires-Dist: rasterio
Provides-Extra: test
Requires-Dist: pytest; extra == 'test'
Requires-Dist: pytest-cov; extra == 'test'

A `rio merge` alternative optimized for large RGBA scenetifs

`rio merge-rgba` is a CLI with nearly identical arguments to `rio merge`. They accomplish the same task, merging many rasters into one. The differences are in the implementation:

`rio merge-rgba`::

1. only accepts 4-band RGBA rasters
2. writes the destination data to disk rather than an in-memory array
3. reads/writes in windows corresponding to the destination block layout
4. once a window is filled with data values, the rest of the source files are skipped for that window

This is both faster and more memory efficient but limited to RGBA rasters.


