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Zarr

Overview of Zarr

Zarr is a general-purpose, chunked, compressed, N-dimensional array format. It is designed to be efficient for storing and accessing large datasets. Zarr can be used to store a variety of data types, including geospatial raster and vector data. Zarr is also a Python package that provides an implementation of chunked, compressed, N-dimensional arrays.

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Zarr integrates direclty with Xarray.

Zarr dependes on NumPy and can save data from NumPy arrays. When paired with Dask , Zarr's parallel processing and file transfers increases the read/write speed of your NumPy array data.

Examples using Zarr

Microsoft Planetary Computer

Last update: 2023-12-05