Matching with available Sentinel-2 data
This step aims at matching observation data with available Sentinel-2 tiles or polygons to Sentinel-2 tiles so it can be used to extract the matching Sentinel-2 data using the extraction function. If polygons are used, they are converted to grid points located at the centroid of 10m Sentinel-2 pixels.
If points or polygons intersect several Sentinel-2 tiles, the resulting points are duplicated for each of them. Observation polygons which are not contained in a Sentinel-2 tile, or are too small to contain a pixel centroid are removed and their IDs are printed to the console.
INPUTS
The input parameters are :
- obs_path : Path to a vector file containing observation points or polygons, must have an ID column corresponding to name_column parameter.
- sentinel_dir : Path of the directory containing Sentinel-2 data.
- export_path : Path used to write resulting vector file, with added epsg, area_name and id_pixel columns.
- name_column (optional) : Name of the ID column. The default is id.
- list_tiles (optional) : A list of names of Sentinel-2 directories. If this parameter is used, extraction is limited to those directories.
- overwrite (optional) : If True, allows overwriting of file at obs_path. The default is False.
OUTPUT
The output is a vector file at export_path containing points for each 10m Sentinel-2 pixel of available tiles at the location of points, or contained in the polygons in the vector file at obs_path. The following attributes are added :
- area_name : The name of the matching Sentinel-2 tile, parsed from its directory name in sentinel_dir.
- epsg : The CRS of the matching Sentinel-2 tile
- id_pixel : The ID of the pixel whose centroid is at the point location in 10m Sentinel data in the corresponding epsg. id_pixel goes from 1 to the number of pixels in the observation.
NOTE : Since observation polygons can be in overlapping Sentinel-2 tiles with different CRS. One needs to use name_column and id_pixel as well as epsg to identify a unique point location (and therefore Sentinel-2 pixel).
How to use
From a script
from fordead.validation.obs_to_s2_grid import obs_to_s2_grid
obs_to_s2_grid(obs_path = <obs_path>, export_path = <export_path>, name_column = <name_column>)
From the command line
fordead obs_to_s2_grid [OPTIONS]
See detailed documentation on the site
How it works
Importing the vector file containing observations
The vector file at obs_path is imported using the geopandas package.
Creating a Sentinel-2 tiles extent vector from existing Sentinel-2 data
- Available Sentinel-2 tiles in the sentinel_dir directory are listed
- The extent of each listed Sentinel-2 tiles is extracted and converted to a GeoDataFrame
- Each GeoDataFrame is given the attributes area_name and epsg, corresponding to the name of the directory containing the tile data, and the epsg of the tile.
- All GeoDataFrames are concatenated
Function used: get_polygons_from_sentinel_dirs()
If vector file at obs_path contains points :
- Observation points are intersected with the Sentinel-2 tiles extent vector, transferring the attributes area_name and epsg
- An id_pixel column is added and filled with 0 so the resulting vector can be used in the export_reflectance function.
- Points outside of available Sentinel-2 tiles are detected and their IDs are printed.
Function used: get_sen_intersection_points()
If vector file at obs_path contains polygons :
Matching observation polygons with Sentinel-2 tiles
- Observation polygons are overlaid with the Sentinel-2 tiles extent vector, transferring the 'area_name' and 'epsg' columns corresponding to the name of the tile, and the projection system respectively
- Observation polygons which are not contained in a Sentinel-2 tile are removed, their IDs are printed to the console.
Function used: get_sen_intersection()
Generating points for pixels inside the polygons
- For each polygon, points are generated in a grid corresponding to the centroids of Sentinel-2 pixels inside the polygon.
- They are given the attributes
- Polygons with no pixels centroids inside of them have their IDs printed to the console.
Function used: polygons_to_grid_points()
Exporting the resulting the vector file
The resulting points are exported to export_path.