Hi Benjamin, This does appear to work, I am now able to use vsimem file handlers with gdal rasters to go from numpy arrays to qgis raster layers effectively. Very exciting, thanks for this tip! I had another QGIS dev question, but I will start a new thread for that.
For anyone else, this is all that I did: dataset = gdal_driver.Create('/vsimem/imagetst.tif', cols, rows, no_bands, gdal.GDT_Float32, creation_options) ...write array to band, set geotransform, etc.... rlayer = QgsRasterLayer('/vsimem/imagetst.tif', 'imagetst', 'gdal') Thanks again, Eric On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 12:57 AM Benjamin Jakimow < benjamin.jaki...@geo.hu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi Eric, > > you might try to use a /vsimem/ path. For example, save your image to > "/vsimem/myimage.tif" and > open it as QgsRasterLayer. I haven't tested it with gdal.Datasets, but it > works with with ogr.DataSources. > Probably you shouldn't overwrite or delete the "/vsimem" object while QGIS > has still a reference on it. > > More details here: > https://gdal.org/user/virtual_file_systems.html#vsimem-in-memory-files > > Greetings, > > Benjamin > > On 2021-03-03 00:00, Eric Younkin - NOAA Federal wrote: > > Hello, > > I've been trying to figure out how to draw grids and lines from numpy > arrays without driving to a raster/vector file first. I tried using the > gdal 'MEM' driver to make a gdal Dataset from a numpy array and pass that > in as a QgsRasterLayer, I get the following: > > >>> memobj > <osgeo.gdal.Dataset; proxy of <Swig Object of type 'GDALDatasetShadow *' > at 0x0000019B3131AC30> > > >>> QgsRasterLayer(memobj, 'testlayer', 'gdal') > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<input>", line 1, in <module> > TypeError: QgsRasterLayer(): arguments did not match any overloaded call: > overload 1: too many arguments > overload 2: argument 1 has unexpected type 'Dataset' > > The only other approach that I could find was: > > > https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/201804/how-to-create-raster-layer-directly-from-numpy-array-in-qgis-without-saving-to > > but I suspect that the return from the processing.run command is probably > a temp file, so it is still going to file. Is there not a way to generate > a raster layer from a numpy array without writing to file first? > > Thanks, > Eric > > -- > Eric Younkin > Physical Scientist > NOAA OCS, Hydrographic Systems and Technology Branch > 1315 East-West Highway > N/CS11, Room 6604 > Silver Spring, MD 20910 > Office: 240-847-8208 > Cell: 828-331-8197 > > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > > -- > -- > Benjamin Jakimow, Doctoral Researcher > Earth Observation Lab | Geography Department | Humboldt-Universität zu > Berlin > > e-mail: benjamin.jaki...@geo.hu-berlin.de > > phone: +49 (0) 30 2093 6894 > mobile: +49 (0) 157 5656 8477 > fax: +49 (0) 30 2093 6848 > mail: Unter den Linden 6 | 10099 Berlin | Germany > room: 2'222 > -- Eric Younkin Physical Scientist NOAA OCS, Hydrographic Systems and Technology Branch 1315 East-West Highway N/CS11, Room 6604 Silver Spring, MD 20910 Office: 240-847-8208 Cell: 828-331-8197
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