Slightly tangential, but is there a "modern" alternative to GDAL for working with raster data?
The last time I tried, stitching together tiles and cutting it to state boundaries took an inordinate amount of time (upwards of 15 minutes for 6 tiles from Landsat-7/8). Though, I'm half convinced it was because I was doing something very suboptimal..
No, GDAL is still the best. I also suspect you were doing something suboptimal. As far as modern wrappers for GDAL, `rasterio` is the most pythonic. Part of sgillies suite including shapely, rasterio, and fiona.
The last time I tried, stitching together tiles and cutting it to state boundaries took an inordinate amount of time (upwards of 15 minutes for 6 tiles from Landsat-7/8). Though, I'm half convinced it was because I was doing something very suboptimal..
Also, iirc, it was single threaded.