Use gippy for raster image processing

[mbertrand]

Instead of using GDAL directly, look into using gippy to process raster data because it can better handle memory management for processing large images and chaining of image processing tasks.

[aashish24]

@mbertrand I liked the idea but does gippy support parallel processing?

[mbertrand]

Python's multiprocessing module, or asynchronous celery tasks, could be used to run gaia/gippy methods in parallel.

[aashish24]

thanks @mbertrand. Lets discuss some more on this. Currently we are favoring geotrellis (https://github.com/geotrellis/geotrellis) which seems to working good so far.

[aashish24]

:cry: hit the wrong button