GDAL and Python
GDAL is a library for geospatial data processing. It is used by many GIS (Geographic Information System) software to read and write geospatial data. It is also used by many satellite image processing software.
Warning
It is quite common to encounter difficulties in installing this package. Here are some tips for installing it on your machine.
To install the GDAL package, you can try pip install GDAL or you can start by
downloading the desired version from this website and
then install it using “pip install myfile.whl” where myfile.whl corresponds to the downloaded file.
Please use a 64-bit version of Python and GDAL (GDAL-x.x.x-cp310-cp310-win_amd64.whl).
Note
If you are using a conda environment, you can install GDAL using the following command:
conda install -c conda-forge gdal
You can check the installation by typing:
gdalinfo --version
in a command prompt. If all is fine, you should see the version of GDAL installed.