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I have come across a set of poorly generated rasters which I need to align and regularize. I am open to any quick and dirty way to do this, but prefer QGIS since I have been using it for all my operations thus far.

The rasters contain positive ranges of floating point values, have a NODATA value defined, but also have many cells containing nan values. I would like to convert all nan values to the currently defined NODATA value. To achieve this, I tried many combinations of using the following:

  • gdal raster calculator (using numpy where and isnan functions)
  • raster calculator
  • GRASS r.null tool

However I can't seem to get a workflow going. The gdal raster calc with numpy functions was close, but unfortunately theres no way of referring to the currently defined NODATA value by variable (as far as I know).

I would like to avoid using Python tools like rasterio since rasters should not be delivered in this format anyway (no use scripting this).

Does anyone have a way of achieving this?

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  • Soliciting "quick and dirty" data massage solutions and refusing to consider Python seems counterintuitive.
    – Vince
    May 19, 2019 at 14:59
  • I actually know how to do it in python. I just want to see if I can avoid writing a dedicated script to a non-general problem
    – user32882
    May 19, 2019 at 15:00
  • r.null usually works fine for me doing such things. What was your workflow using it?
    – MrXsquared
    May 19, 2019 at 15:03
  • Data cleanup isnt exactly a non-general problem.
    – Vince
    May 19, 2019 at 15:04
  • r.null successfully converted all nan and NODATA values to -9999 (for example), however the output raster had no defined NODATA value as shown in layer properties> transparency
    – user32882
    May 19, 2019 at 15:05

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Here's a lazy script I wrote to do this:

import rasterio
import os
import numpy as np


raster = 'Waterways_dist_clipped_30m.tif'

ds = rasterio.open(os.path.join('main_input',raster))
profile = ds.profile

data = ds.read(1)
new_data = np.where(np.isnan(data), profile['nodata'], data).astype(profile['dtype'])

with rasterio.Env():
    with rasterio.open(os.path.join('D:\\TEMP\\rasters', raster), 'w', **profile) as dst:
        dst.write(new_data, 1)

ds.close()
print('don')

Lord knows I didn't enjoy writing it....

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If still useful for someone, I solved this problem using the raster calculator. For a raster called 'RAST':

RAST/(abs(RAST)+1>0)

The denominator gives zero at not a number (nan) pixels, and thus the equation gives 'no data'

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