History

More information on how the package was created, who are the people behind it, and its mission.

Creation

GeoUtils was created during the GlacioHack hackaton event, that took place online on November 8, 2020 and was initiated by Amaury Dehecq².

²More on our GlacioHack founder at adehecq.github.io!

GeoUtils is inspired by previous efforts that were built directly on top of GDAL and OGR, namely:

• the older, homonymous package GeoUtils,

• the class pybob.GeoImg,

• the package pygeotools, and

• the package salem.

The initial core development of GeoUtils was mainly performed by members of the Glaciology group of the Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW) at ETH Zürich³ and of the University of Fribourg, both in Switzerland. The package also received contributions by members of the University of Oslo, Norway, the University of Washington, US and Université Grenobles Alpes, France.

³Check-out glaciology.ch on our founding group of VAW glaciology!

Joining effort with demcompare

In 2024, GeoUtils and demcompare joined efforts in the perspective of merging the best of both packages into one, and to jointly continue the development of new features for analyzing geospatial and in particular elevation data with a larger expertise pool.

demcompare is a tool developed by the CNES (French Space Agency) to support its 3D satellite missions in analyzing elevation data, for instance from stereophotogrammetric DEMs that can be generated with CARS.

Current team

³More on CNES’s 3D missions on the CO3D constellation page.

The current lead development team includes researchers in Earth observation and engineers from CNES (French Space Agency). We specialize in elevation data analysis, for application in Earth science or for operational use for 3D satellite missions³.

Other volunteer contributors span diverse scientific backgrounds in industry or research. We welcome any new contributors! See how to contribute on the dedicated page of our repository.