Domo Arigato, Multi-Resolution Globato.
Globato is the user-facing geospatial engine of the Continuous-DEMs ecosystem. It is designed for the rapid development, blending, and processing of high-accuracy Topo-Bathy Digital Elevation Models (DEMs).
Built on top of the fetchez (orchestration) and transformez (horizontal and vertical datums) libraries, globato abstracts away the complexity of DEM development. It allows users to generate massive, seamless DEMs using declarative YAML recipes or intuitive command-line tools.
Traditional DEM generation is often a disjointed, manual process of hunting down, organizing and processing disparate datasets using a wide variety of software and one-off processing scripts.
Globato standardizes this workflow by unifying data fetching, spatial filtering, datum transformations, and gridding into a single, memory-safe streaming pipeline. Using declarative YAML recipes, it allows you to orchestrate massive, reproducible Topo-Bathy DEMs directly from your terminal!
Install via pip (this will automatically pull in the fetchez and transformez dependencies):
pip install globatoIf you are new to Globato, the best place to start is the Quickstart guide, which will take you from installation to generating your first DEM in under 5 minutes.
Would you like to know more? Check out our Official Documentation to learn about:
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The Python API: Build custom Digital Elevation Models and process elevation data in your apps.
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The Globato CLI: Generate and run globato recipes, fetch elevation data sources, visualize your data all in the command line.
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DEM Recipes: Build reproducable DEMs using simple YAML recipes.
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.
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